#E5E350#E5E350

#E5E350 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.722; OKLCH L 89.1% C 0.164 H 108.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.44:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E350
RGB	rgb(229, 227, 80)
HSL	hsl(59, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(59, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.9%, 65.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.05, -16.67, 69.04)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.05, 71.03, 103.58°)
OKLab	oklab(89.13% -0.0521 0.1554)
OKLCH	oklch(89.13% 0.164 108.6)
XYZ	xyz(61.2322, 72.1772, 18.2940)
Luminance	0.7218 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E350 #5052E5

analogous

#E59950 #E5E350 #9CE550

triadic

#E5E350 #50E5E3 #E350E5

tetradic

#E5E350 #50E599 #5052E5 #E5509C

square

#E5E350 #50E599 #5052E5 #E5509C

split-complementary

#E5E350 #509CE5 #9950E5

monochromatic

#A2A118 #D8D520 #E5E350 #EDEC85 #F5F4BB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.36

#E5E350 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.44

#E5E350 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E350

15.44:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E350	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E350	1.00	1.36	15.44	15.44
#FFFFFF	1.36	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.44	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.44	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F5DA3B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F7DF5A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D5C5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DDDDDD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e350;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 227, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.1% 0.164 108.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1eb89',
    500: '#e5e350',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e350;
$custom-light: #f1eb89;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e350",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 227,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.195,
    "s": 74.129,
    "l": 60.588
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89128,
    "c": 0.16388,
    "h": 108.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.72175
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E350

secondary

#3436A5

accent

#12D60F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E350

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

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