#E5DC57#E5DC57

#E5DC57 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.685; OKLCH L 87.7% C 0.152 H 105.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.71:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5DC57
RGB	rgb(229, 220, 87)
HSL	hsl(56, 73%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(56, 62%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 3.9%, 62%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(86.27, -12.80, 64.37)
CIE-LCH	lch(86.27, 65.63, 101.25°)
OKLab	oklab(87.73% -0.0405 0.1465)
OKLCH	oklch(87.73% 0.152 105.4)
XYZ	xyz(59.6287, 68.5346, 19.1025)
Luminance	0.6853 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5DC57 #5760E5

analogous

#E59557 #E5DC57 #A7E557

triadic

#E5DC57 #57E5DC #DC57E5

tetradic

#E5DC57 #57E595 #5760E5 #E557A7

square

#E5DC57 #57E595 #5760E5 #E557A7

split-complementary

#E5DC57 #57A7E5 #9557E5

monochromatic

#A89F1A #DDD122 #E5DC57 #EDE78C #F5F2C1

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.43

#E5DC57 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.71

#E5DC57 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5DC57

14.71:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5DC57	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5DC57	1.00	1.43	14.71	14.71
#FFFFFF	1.43	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.71	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.71	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EED547

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F1DB5F

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5CEC0

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D8D8D8

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5dc57;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 220, 87);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.7% 0.152 105.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e68c',
    500: '#e5dc57',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5dc57;
$custom-light: #f0e68c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5dc57",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 220,
    "b": 87
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 56.197,
    "s": 73.196,
    "l": 61.961
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87726,
    "c": 0.15201,
    "h": 105.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.68533
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5DC57

secondary

#373EAA

accent

#1DD510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5DC57

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

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