#E5D560#E5D560

#E5D560 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.651; OKLCH L 86.4% C 0.138 H 101.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.02:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D560
RGB	rgb(229, 213, 96)
HSL	hsl(53, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(53, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7%, 58.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.53, -8.69, 58.59)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.53, 59.23, 98.44°)
OKLab	oklab(86.37% -0.0277 0.1354)
OKLCH	oklch(86.37% 0.138 101.6)
XYZ	xyz(58.2208, 65.0933, 20.5615)
Luminance	0.6509 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D560 #6070E5

analogous

#E59260 #E5D560 #B2E560

triadic

#E5D560 #60E5D5 #D560E5

tetradic

#E5D560 #60E592 #6070E5 #E560B2

square

#E5D560 #60E592 #6070E5 #E560B2

split-complementary

#E5D560 #60B2E5 #9260E5

monochromatic

#AE9D1C #DCC72B #E5D560 #EEE395 #F6F1C9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.50

#E5D560 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.02

#E5D560 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D560

14.02:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D560	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D560	1.00	1.50	14.02	14.02
#FFFFFF	1.50	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.02	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.02	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7CF54

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EBD666

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C8BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D3D3D3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d560;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 213, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.4% 0.138 101.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e191',
    500: '#e5d560',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d560;
$custom-light: #f0e191;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d560",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.782,
    "s": 71.892,
    "l": 63.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86367,
    "c": 0.13822,
    "h": 101.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.65091
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D560

secondary

#3A48AF

accent

#29D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D560

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

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