#E5D05B#E5D05B

#E5D05B is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.625; OKLCH L 85.3% C 0.138 H 99.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.51:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D05B
RGB	rgb(229, 208, 91)
HSL	hsl(51, 73%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(51, 60%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 9.2%, 60.3%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.19, -6.50, 59.31)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.19, 59.67, 96.26°)
OKLab	oklab(85.29% -0.022 0.1363)
OKLCH	oklch(85.29% 0.138 99.2)
XYZ	xyz(56.7596, 62.5275, 18.9748)
Luminance	0.6252 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D05B #5B70E5

analogous

#E58B5B #E5D05B #B5E55B

triadic

#E5D05B #5BE5D0 #D05BE5

tetradic

#E5D05B #5BE58B #5B70E5 #E55BB5

square

#E5D05B #5BE58B #5B70E5 #E55BB5

split-complementary

#E5D05B #5BB5E5 #8B5BE5

monochromatic

#AB951B #DDC126 #E5D05B #EDDF90 #F6EEC5

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.55

#E5D05B on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.51

#E5D05B on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D05B

13.51:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D05B	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D05B	1.00	1.55	13.51	13.51
#FFFFFF	1.55	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.51	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.51	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E2CB4E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E8D361

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C2B7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CFCFCF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d05b;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 208, 91);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.3% 0.138 99.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0de8e',
    500: '#e5d05b',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d05b;
$custom-light: #f0de8e;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d05b",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 208,
    "b": 91
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50.87,
    "s": 72.632,
    "l": 62.745
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8529,
    "c": 0.13809,
    "h": 99.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.62525
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D05B

secondary

#384AAC

accent

#2FD511

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D05B

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

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