#E5CD60#E5CD60

#E5CD60 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.612; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.131 H 97.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.23:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CD60
RGB	rgb(229, 205, 96)
HSL	hsl(49, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(49, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.5%, 58.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.47, -4.63, 56.26)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.47, 56.45, 94.70°)
OKLab	oklab(84.73% -0.0161 0.1304)
OKLCH	oklch(84.73% 0.131 97)
XYZ	xyz(56.2580, 61.1677, 19.9073)
Luminance	0.6117 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CD60 #6078E5

analogous

#E58A60 #E5CD60 #BAE560

triadic

#E5CD60 #60E5CD #CD60E5

tetradic

#E5CD60 #60E58A #6078E5 #E560BA

square

#E5CD60 #60E58A #6078E5 #E560BA

split-complementary

#E5CD60 #60BAE5 #8A60E5

monochromatic

#AE941C #DCBC2B #E5CD60 #EEDE95 #F6EEC9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E5CD60 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.23

#E5CD60 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CD60

13.23:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CD60	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CD60	1.00	1.59	13.23	13.23
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.23	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.23	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC955

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D165

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C0B5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5cd60;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 205, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.131 97.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0dc91',
    500: '#e5cd60',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5cd60;
$custom-light: #f0dc91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5cd60",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.173,
    "s": 71.892,
    "l": 63.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84732,
    "c": 0.13142,
    "h": 97
  },
  "luminance": 0.61165
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CD60

secondary

#3A4FAF

accent

#35D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFBF4

border

#D6D4CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CD60

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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