#E5E44E#E5E44E

#E5E44E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.727; OKLCH L 89.3% C 0.166 H 109.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.54:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E44E
RGB	rgb(229, 228, 78)
HSL	hsl(60, 74%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(60, 66%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.4%, 65.9%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.30, -17.27, 70.06)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.30, 72.16, 103.85°)
OKLab	oklab(89.32% -0.054 0.1572)
OKLCH	oklch(89.32% 0.166 109)
XYZ	xyz(61.4337, 72.6967, 18.0020)
Luminance	0.7269 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E44E #4E4FE5

analogous

#E5994E #E5E44E #9AE54E

triadic

#E5E44E #4EE5E4 #E44EE5

tetradic

#E5E44E #4EE599 #4E4FE5 #E54E9A

square

#E5E44E #4EE599 #4E4FE5 #E54E9A

split-complementary

#E5E44E #4E9AE5 #994EE5

monochromatic

#A1A018 #D6D51F #E5E44E #EDEC83 #F5F4B9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.35

#E5E44E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.54

#E5E44E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E44E

15.54:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E44E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E44E	1.00	1.35	15.54	15.54
#FFFFFF	1.35	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.54	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.54	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F6DB38

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F8E058

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D6C6

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DEDEDE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e44e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 228, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.3% 0.166 109.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ec87',
    500: '#e5e44e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e44e;
$custom-light: #f1ec87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e44e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 228,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.603,
    "s": 74.384,
    "l": 60.196
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89322,
    "c": 0.16623,
    "h": 109
  },
  "luminance": 0.72695
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E44E

secondary

#3434A4

accent

#10D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E44E

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

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