#E5D356#E5D356

#E5D356 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.639; OKLCH L 85.9% C 0.145 H 101.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.78:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D356
RGB	rgb(229, 211, 86)
HSL	hsl(52, 73%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(52, 62%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.9%, 62.4%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(83.92, -8.35, 62.27)
CIE-LCH	lch(83.92, 62.83, 97.64°)
OKLab	oklab(85.86% -0.0279 0.1419)
OKLCH	oklch(85.86% 0.145 101.1)
XYZ	xyz(57.2894, 63.9208, 18.1225)
Luminance	0.6392 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D356 #5668E5

analogous

#E58C56 #E5D356 #AFE556

triadic

#E5D356 #56E5D3 #D356E5

tetradic

#E5D356 #56E58C #5668E5 #E556AF

square

#E5D356 #56E58C #5668E5 #E556AF

split-complementary

#E5D356 #56AFE5 #8C56E5

monochromatic

#A7951A #DCC522 #E5D356 #EDE18B #F5EFC0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.52

#E5D356 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.78

#E5D356 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D356

13.78:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D356	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D356	1.00	1.52	13.78	13.78
#FFFFFF	1.52	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.78	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.78	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E5CD47

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EBD55D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C5B9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D1D1D1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d356;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 211, 86);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.9% 0.145 101.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e08b',
    500: '#e5d356',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d356;
$custom-light: #f0e08b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d356",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 211,
    "b": 86
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.448,
    "s": 73.333,
    "l": 61.765
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85856,
    "c": 0.14465,
    "h": 101.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.63918
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D356

secondary

#3645A9

accent

#29D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D356

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

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