#E5E54E#E5E54E

#E5E54E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.732; OKLCH L 89.5% C 0.167 H 109.3°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.65:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E54E
RGB	rgb(229, 229, 78)
HSL	hsl(60, 74%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(60, 66%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 65.9%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.57, -17.76, 70.33)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.57, 72.54, 104.17°)
OKLab	oklab(89.53% -0.0554 0.1578)
OKLCH	oklch(89.53% 0.167 109.3)
XYZ	xyz(61.7096, 73.2485, 18.0940)
Luminance	0.7325 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E54E #4E4EE5

analogous

#E5994E #E5E54E #99E54E

triadic

#E5E54E #4EE5E5 #E54EE5

tetradic

#E5E54E #4EE599 #4E4EE5 #E54E99

square

#E5E54E #4EE599 #4E4EE5 #E54E99

split-complementary

#E5E54E #4E99E5 #994EE5

monochromatic

#A1A118 #D6D61F #E5E54E #EDED83 #F5F5B9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.34

#E5E54E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.65

#E5E54E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E54E

15.65:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E54E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E54E	1.00	1.34	15.65	15.65
#FFFFFF	1.34	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.65	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.65	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F7DC38

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F9E158

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D7C7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DEDEDE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e54e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 229, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.5% 0.167 109.3);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ed88',
    500: '#e5e54e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e54e;
$custom-light: #f1ed88;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e54e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 74.384,
    "l": 60.196
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89532,
    "c": 0.1672,
    "h": 109.3
  },
  "luminance": 0.73247
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E54E

secondary

#3434A4

accent

#0FD70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E54E

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

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