#E5E450#E5E450

#E5E450 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.727; OKLCH L 89.3% C 0.165 H 108.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.54:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E450
RGB	rgb(229, 228, 80)
HSL	hsl(60, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(60, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.4%, 65.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.32, -17.16, 69.31)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.32, 71.41, 103.91°)
OKLab	oklab(89.34% -0.0535 0.1559)
OKLCH	oklch(89.34% 0.165 108.9)
XYZ	xyz(61.5065, 72.7258, 18.3854)
Luminance	0.7272 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E450 #5051E5

analogous

#E59950 #E5E450 #9CE550

triadic

#E5E450 #50E5E4 #E450E5

tetradic

#E5E450 #50E599 #5051E5 #E5509C

square

#E5E450 #50E599 #5051E5 #E5509C

split-complementary

#E5E450 #509CE5 #9950E5

monochromatic

#A2A218 #D8D720 #E5E450 #EDEC85 #F5F4BB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.35

#E5E450 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.54

#E5E450 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E450

15.54:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E450	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E450	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)

#F6DB3B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F8E05A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D6C6

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DEDEDE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e450;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 228, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.3% 0.165 108.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ec89',
    500: '#e5e450',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e450;
$custom-light: #f1ec89;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e450",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 228,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.597,
    "s": 74.129,
    "l": 60.588
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89337,
    "c": 0.16486,
    "h": 108.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.72724
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E450

secondary

#3435A5

accent

#11D60F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E450

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

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