#E5D866#E5D866

#E5D866 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.667; OKLCH L 87.1% C 0.136 H 102.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.35:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D866
RGB	rgb(229, 216, 102)
HSL	hsl(54, 71%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(54, 55%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 5.7%, 55.5%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.37, -9.76, 56.84)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.37, 57.67, 99.75°)
OKLab	oklab(87.05% -0.0301 0.1324)
OKLCH	oklch(87.05% 0.136 102.8)
XYZ	xyz(59.2692, 66.7312, 22.3262)
Luminance	0.6673 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D866 #6673E5

analogous

#E59866 #E5D866 #B3E566

triadic

#E5D866 #66E5D8 #D866E5

tetradic

#E5D866 #66E598 #6673E5 #E566B3

square

#E5D866 #66E598 #6673E5 #E566B3

split-complementary

#E5D866 #66B3E5 #9866E5

monochromatic

#B2A31E #DCCB32 #E5D866 #EEE59A #F7F3CF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.46

#E5D866 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.35

#E5D866 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D866

14.35:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D866	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D866	1.00	1.46	14.35	14.35
#FFFFFF	1.46	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.35	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.35	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E9D25B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EDD86C

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4CBBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D5D5D5

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d866;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 216, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.1% 0.136 102.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e395',
    500: '#e5d866',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d866;
$custom-light: #f0e395;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d866",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 53.858,
    "s": 70.95,
    "l": 64.902
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8705,
    "c": 0.13574,
    "h": 102.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.66729
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D866

secondary

#3C48B3

accent

#26D313

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF5

border

#D6D5CF

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D866

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

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