#E5D956#E5D956

#E5D956 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.670; OKLCH L 87.1% C 0.150 H 104.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.39:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5D956
RGB	rgb(229, 217, 86)
HSL	hsl(55, 73%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(55, 62%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 5.2%, 62.4%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.48, -11.37, 63.94)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.48, 64.94, 100.08°)
OKLab	oklab(87.09% -0.0365 0.1455)
OKLCH	oklch(87.09% 0.15 104.1)
XYZ	xyz(58.8078, 66.9578, 18.6287)
Luminance	0.6696 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5D956 #5662E5

analogous

#E59256 #E5D956 #AAE556

triadic

#E5D956 #56E5D9 #D956E5

tetradic

#E5D956 #56E592 #5662E5 #E556AA

square

#E5D956 #56E592 #5662E5 #E556AA

split-complementary

#E5D956 #56AAE5 #9256E5

monochromatic

#A79B1A #DCCC22 #E5D956 #EDE58B #F5F1C0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.46

#E5D956 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.39

#E5D956 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5D956

14.39:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5D956	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5D956	1.00	1.46	14.39	14.39
#FFFFFF	1.46	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.39	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.39	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EBD246

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EFD95E

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5CBBD

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D6D6D6

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5d956;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 217, 86);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.1% 0.150 104.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e48b',
    500: '#e5d956',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5d956;
$custom-light: #f0e48b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5d956",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 217,
    "b": 86
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 54.965,
    "s": 73.333,
    "l": 61.765
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87094,
    "c": 0.14999,
    "h": 104.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.66956
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5D956

secondary

#3640A9

accent

#21D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5D956

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

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