#E5D561#E5D561

#E5D561 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.651; OKLCH L 86.4% C 0.137 H 101.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.02:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D561
RGB	rgb(229, 213, 97)
HSL	hsl(53, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(53, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7%, 57.6%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.54, -8.62, 58.15)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.54, 58.79, 98.43°)
OKLab	oklab(86.38% -0.0274 0.1346)
OKLCH	oklch(86.38% 0.137 101.5)
XYZ	xyz(58.2671, 65.1118, 20.8056)
Luminance	0.6511 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D561 #6171E5

analogous

#E59361 #E5D561 #B3E561

triadic

#E5D561 #61E5D5 #D561E5

tetradic

#E5D561 #61E593 #6171E5 #E561B3

square

#E5D561 #61E593 #6171E5 #E561B3

split-complementary

#E5D561 #61B3E5 #9361E5

monochromatic

#AF9D1D #DCC72C #E5D561 #EEE396 #F6F1CA

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.50

#E5D561 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.02

#E5D561 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D561

14.02:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D561	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D561	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)

#E7CF55

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EBD667

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C8BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D3D3D3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d561;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 213, 97);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.4% 0.137 101.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e192',
    500: '#e5d561',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d561;
$custom-light: #f0e192;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d561",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 97
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.727,
    "s": 71.739,
    "l": 63.922
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86378,
    "c": 0.13737,
    "h": 101.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.6511
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D561

secondary

#3A49B0

accent

#29D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D561

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

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