#E5D366#E5D366

#E5D366 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.642; OKLCH L 86.0% C 0.131 H 100.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.84:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D366
RGB	rgb(229, 211, 102)
HSL	hsl(51, 71%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(51, 55%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.9%, 55.5%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.07, -7.24, 55.35)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.07, 55.82, 97.45°)
OKLab	oklab(86.02% -0.0229 0.1291)
OKLCH	oklch(86.02% 0.131 100.1)
XYZ	xyz(58.0077, 64.2081, 21.9056)
Luminance	0.6421 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D366 #6678E5

analogous

#E59366 #E5D366 #B8E566

triadic

#E5D366 #66E5D3 #D366E5

tetradic

#E5D366 #66E593 #6678E5 #E566B8

square

#E5D366 #66E593 #6678E5 #E566B8

split-complementary

#E5D366 #66B8E5 #9366E5

monochromatic

#B29D1E #DCC432 #E5D366 #EEE29A #F7F1CF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.52

#E5D366 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.84

#E5D366 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D366

13.84:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D366	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D366	1.00	1.52	13.84	13.84
#FFFFFF	1.52	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.84	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.84	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E4CE5B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E9D56B

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C6BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d366;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 211, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.0% 0.131 100.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e095',
    500: '#e5d366',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d366;
$custom-light: #f0e095;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d366",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 211,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.496,
    "s": 70.95,
    "l": 64.902
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86023,
    "c": 0.13117,
    "h": 100.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.64206
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D366

secondary

#3C4DB3

accent

#2ED313

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D366

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

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