#E5D362#E5D362

#E5D362 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.641; OKLCH L 86.0% C 0.135 H 100.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.83:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D362
RGB	rgb(229, 211, 98)
HSL	hsl(52, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(52, 57%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.9%, 57.2%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.03, -7.54, 57.13)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.03, 57.62, 97.51°)
OKLab	oklab(85.98% -0.0242 0.1325)
OKLCH	oklch(85.98% 0.135 100.4)
XYZ	xyz(57.8141, 64.1307, 20.8860)
Luminance	0.6413 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D362 #6274E5

analogous

#E59262 #E5D362 #B6E562

triadic

#E5D362 #62E5D3 #D362E5

tetradic

#E5D362 #62E592 #6274E5 #E562B6

square

#E5D362 #62E592 #6274E5 #E562B6

split-complementary

#E5D362 #62B6E5 #9262E5

monochromatic

#B09B1D #DCC42D #E5D362 #EEE297 #F6F0CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.52

#E5D362 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.83

#E5D362 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D362

13.83:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D362	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D362	1.00	1.52	13.83	13.83
#FFFFFF	1.52	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.83	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.83	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E5CE56

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EAD568

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C6BA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d362;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 211, 98);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.0% 0.135 100.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e092',
    500: '#e5d362',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d362;
$custom-light: #f0e092;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d362",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 211,
    "b": 98
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.756,
    "s": 71.585,
    "l": 64.118
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85978,
    "c": 0.13472,
    "h": 100.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.64128
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D362

secondary

#3B4BB1

accent

#2CD412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D362

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

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