#E5E24D#E5E24D

#E5E24D is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.716; OKLCH L 88.9% C 0.165 H 108.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.32:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E24D
RGB	rgb(229, 226, 77)
HSL	hsl(59, 75%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(59, 66%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.3%, 66.4%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(87.77, -16.35, 69.90)
CIE-LCH	lch(87.77, 71.79, 103.16°)
OKLab	oklab(88.89% -0.0515 0.1567)
OKLCH	oklch(88.89% 0.165 108.2)
XYZ	xyz(60.8511, 71.5884, 17.6323)
Luminance	0.7159 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E24D #4D50E5

analogous

#E5964D #E5E24D #9CE54D

triadic

#E5E24D #4DE5E2 #E24DE5

tetradic

#E5E24D #4DE596 #4D50E5 #E54D9C

square

#E5E24D #4DE596 #4D50E5 #E54D9C

split-complementary

#E5E24D #4D9CE5 #964DE5

monochromatic

#A09E17 #D6D21F #E5E24D #EDEB82 #F5F3B8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.37

#E5E24D on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.32

#E5E24D on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E24D

15.32:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E24D	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E24D	1.00	1.37	15.32	15.32
#FFFFFF	1.37	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.32	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.32	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F4D937

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F6DF57

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D4C4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DCDCDC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e24d;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 226, 77);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(88.9% 0.165 108.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ea87',
    500: '#e5e24d',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e24d;
$custom-light: #f1ea87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e24d",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 226,
    "b": 77
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.816,
    "s": 74.51,
    "l": 60
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.88894,
    "c": 0.16495,
    "h": 108.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.71587
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E24D

secondary

#3335A3

accent

#3AF137

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E24D

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

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