#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
RGBrgb(229, 228, 80)
HSLhsl(60, 74%, 61%)
HSVhsv(60, 65%, 90%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 0.4%, 65.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LABlab(88.32, -17.16, 69.31)
CIE-LCHlch(88.32, 71.41, 103.91°)
OKLaboklab(89.34% -0.0535 0.1559)
OKLCHoklch(89.34% 0.165 108.9)
XYZxyz(61.5065, 72.7258, 18.3854)
Luminance0.7272 (WCAG relative)
Temperaturewarm
Familyyellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

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
##E5E4501.001.3515.5415.54
#FFFFFF1.351.0021.0021.00
#00000015.5421.001.001.00
##00000015.5421.001.001.00

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

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#E5E450 Color — HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH & Contrast — Tintiva