#E5D562#E5D562

#E5D562 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 14.03:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D562
RGB	rgb(229, 213, 98)
HSL	hsl(53, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(53, 57%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7%, 57.2%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.55, -8.55, 57.71)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.55, 58.34, 98.42°)
OKLab	oklab(86.39% -0.0271 0.1338)
OKLCH	oklch(86.39% 0.137 101.5)
XYZ	xyz(58.3140, 65.1306, 21.0527)
Luminance	0.6513 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D562 #6272E5

analogous

#E59462 #E5D562 #B4E562

triadic

#E5D562 #62E5D5 #D562E5

tetradic

#E5D562 #62E594 #6272E5 #E562B4

square

#E5D562 #62E594 #6272E5 #E562B4

split-complementary

#E5D562 #62B4E5 #9462E5

monochromatic

#B09E1D #DCC72D #E5D562 #EEE397 #F6F1CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.50

#E5D562 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.03

#E5D562 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D562

14.03:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D562	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D562	1.00	1.50	14.03	14.03
#FFFFFF	1.50	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.03	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.03	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E6CF56

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EBD668

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5C8BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D3D3D3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d562;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 213, 98);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.4% 0.137 101.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e192',
    500: '#e5d562',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d562;
$custom-light: #f0e192;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d562",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 98
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.672,
    "s": 71.585,
    "l": 64.118
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86388,
    "c": 0.1365,
    "h": 101.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.65128
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D562

secondary

#3B49B1

accent

#2AD412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D562

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

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