#E5E24A#E5E24A

#E5E24A is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.715; OKLCH L 88.9% C 0.167 H 108.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.31:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E24A
RGB	rgb(229, 226, 74)
HSL	hsl(59, 75%, 59%)
HSV	hsv(59, 68%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.3%, 67.7%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(87.75, -16.51, 71.00)
CIE-LCH	lch(87.75, 72.89, 103.09°)
OKLab	oklab(88.87% -0.0523 0.1585)
OKLCH	oklch(88.87% 0.167 108.2)
XYZ	xyz(60.7477, 71.5470, 17.0872)
Luminance	0.7155 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E24A #4A4DE5

analogous

#E5954A #E5E24A #9AE54A

triadic

#E5E24A #4AE5E2 #E24AE5

tetradic

#E5E24A #4AE595 #4A4DE5 #E54A9A

square

#E5E24A #4AE595 #4A4DE5 #E54A9A

split-complementary

#E5E24A #4A9AE5 #954AE5

monochromatic

#9E9B17 #D3D01E #E5E24A #EDEB80 #F4F3B5

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.37

#E5E24A on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.31

#E5E24A on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E24A

15.31:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E24A	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E24A	1.00	1.37	15.31	15.31
#FFFFFF	1.37	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.31	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.31	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F4D932

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F7DE54

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D4C4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DCDCDC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e24a;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 226, 74);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(88.9% 0.167 108.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ea85',
    500: '#e5e24a',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e24a;
$custom-light: #f1ea85;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e24a",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 226,
    "b": 74
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.839,
    "s": 74.879,
    "l": 59.412
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.88872,
    "c": 0.16693,
    "h": 108.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.71545
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E24A

secondary

#3234A1

accent

#3AF136

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF3

border

#D7D5CD

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E24A

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

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