#E5CE60#E5CE60

#E5CE60 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.616; OKLCH L 84.9% C 0.132 H 97.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.33:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5CE60
RGB	rgb(229, 206, 96)
HSL	hsl(50, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(50, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10%, 58.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.73, -5.14, 56.55)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.73, 56.78, 95.19°)
OKLab	oklab(84.94% -0.0176 0.1311)
OKLCH	oklch(84.94% 0.132 97.6)
XYZ	xyz(56.4979, 61.6476, 19.9873)
Luminance	0.6165 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

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Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5CE60 #6077E5

analogous

#E58B60 #E5CE60 #B9E560

triadic

#E5CE60 #60E5CE #CE60E5

tetradic

#E5CE60 #60E58B #6077E5 #E560B9

square

#E5CE60 #60E58B #6077E5 #E560B9

split-complementary

#E5CE60 #60B9E5 #8B60E5

monochromatic

#AE951C #DCBE2B #E5CE60 #EEDE95 #F6EEC9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#E5CE60 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.33

#E5CE60 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5CE60

13.33:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5CE60	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5CE60	1.00	1.58	13.33	13.33
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.33	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.33	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E0C955

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D165

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C1B6

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5ce60;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 206, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.9% 0.132 97.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0dc91',
    500: '#e5ce60',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5ce60;
$custom-light: #f0dc91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5ce60",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 206,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.624,
    "s": 71.892,
    "l": 63.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84935,
    "c": 0.13222,
    "h": 97.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.61645
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5CE60

secondary

#3A4EAF

accent

#33D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFBF4

border

#D6D4CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5CE60

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

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