#E5CD62#E5CD62

#E5CD62 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.612; OKLCH L 84.8% C 0.130 H 96.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.24:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CD62
RGB	rgb(229, 205, 98)
HSL	hsl(49, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(49, 57%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.5%, 57.2%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.49, -4.48, 55.37)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.49, 55.55, 94.63°)
OKLab	oklab(84.75% -0.0154 0.1288)
OKLCH	oklch(84.75% 0.13 96.8)
XYZ	xyz(56.3512, 61.2050, 20.3984)
Luminance	0.6120 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CD62 #627AE5

analogous

#E58C62 #E5CD62 #BBE562

triadic

#E5CD62 #62E5CD #CD62E5

tetradic

#E5CD62 #62E58C #627AE5 #E562BB

square

#E5CD62 #62E58C #627AE5 #E562BB

split-complementary

#E5CD62 #62BBE5 #8C62E5

monochromatic

#B0951D #DCBC2D #E5CD62 #EEDE97 #F6EECB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E5CD62 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.24

#E5CD62 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CD62

13.24:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CD62	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CD62	1.00	1.59	13.24	13.24
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.24	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.24	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC957

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D167

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C0B5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5cd62;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 205, 98);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.8% 0.130 96.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0dc92',
    500: '#e5cd62',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5cd62;
$custom-light: #f0dc92;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5cd62",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 98
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.008,
    "s": 71.585,
    "l": 64.118
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84754,
    "c": 0.12967,
    "h": 96.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.61202
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CD62

secondary

#3B50B1

accent

#35D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFBF4

border

#D6D4CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CD62

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

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