#E5E250#E5E250

#E5E250 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.716; OKLCH L 88.9% C 0.163 H 108.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.33:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E250
RGB	rgb(229, 226, 80)
HSL	hsl(59, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(59, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.3%, 65.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(87.79, -16.18, 68.77)
CIE-LCH	lch(87.79, 70.65, 103.24°)
OKLab	oklab(88.92% -0.0508 0.1548)
OKLCH	oklch(88.92% 0.163 108.2)
XYZ	xyz(60.9595, 71.6318, 18.2031)
Luminance	0.7163 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E250 #5053E5

analogous

#E59750 #E5E250 #9DE550

triadic

#E5E250 #50E5E2 #E250E5

tetradic

#E5E250 #50E597 #5053E5 #E5509D

square

#E5E250 #50E597 #5053E5 #E5509D

split-complementary

#E5E250 #509DE5 #9750E5

monochromatic

#A2A018 #D8D420 #E5E250 #EDEB85 #F5F4BB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.37

#E5E250 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.33

#E5E250 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E250

15.33:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E250	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E250	1.00	1.37	15.33	15.33
#FFFFFF	1.37	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.33	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.33	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F4D93C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F6DF5A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D4C4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DCDCDC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e250;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 226, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(88.9% 0.163 108.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ea88',
    500: '#e5e250',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e250;
$custom-light: #f1ea88;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e250",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 226,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.792,
    "s": 74.129,
    "l": 60.588
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.88918,
    "c": 0.1629,
    "h": 108.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.7163
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E250

secondary

#3437A5

accent

#13D60F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E250

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

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