#E5D260#E5D260

#E5D260 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.636; OKLCH L 85.8% C 0.136 H 99.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.72:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D260
RGB	rgb(229, 210, 96)
HSL	hsl(51, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(51, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.3%, 58.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.76, -7.17, 57.72)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.76, 58.16, 97.08°)
OKLab	oklab(85.75% -0.0234 0.1336)
OKLCH	oklch(85.75% 0.136 99.9)
XYZ	xyz(57.4732, 63.5981, 20.3123)
Luminance	0.6360 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D260 #6073E5

analogous

#E58F60 #E5D260 #B5E560

triadic

#E5D260 #60E5D2 #D260E5

tetradic

#E5D260 #60E58F #6073E5 #E560B5

square

#E5D260 #60E58F #6073E5 #E560B5

split-complementary

#E5D260 #60B5E5 #8F60E5

monochromatic

#AE991C #DCC32B #E5D260 #EEE195 #F6F0C9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.53

#E5D260 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.72

#E5D260 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D260

13.72:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D260	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D260	1.00	1.53	13.72	13.72
#FFFFFF	1.53	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.72	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.72	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E4CD54

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E9D466

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C5B9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d260;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 210, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.8% 0.136 99.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0df91',
    500: '#e5d260',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d260;
$custom-light: #f0df91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d260",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 210,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.429,
    "s": 71.892,
    "l": 63.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85752,
    "c": 0.13558,
    "h": 99.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.63596
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D260

secondary

#3A4BAF

accent

#2DD412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D260

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

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