#E5E551#E5E551

#E5E551 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.733; OKLCH L 89.6% C 0.165 H 109.3°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.66:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX#E5E551
RGBrgb(229, 229, 81)
HSLhsl(60, 74%, 61%)
HSVhsv(60, 65%, 90%)
CMYKcmyk(0%, 0%, 64.6%, 10.2%)
CIE-LABlab(88.59, -17.60, 69.20)
CIE-LCHlch(88.59, 71.41, 104.27°)
OKLaboklab(89.56% -0.0546 0.1559)
OKLCHoklch(89.56% 0.165 109.3)
XYZxyz(61.8196, 73.2925, 18.6734)
Luminance0.7329 (WCAG relative)
Temperaturewarm
Familyyellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary
#E5E551 #5151E5
analogous
#E59B51 #E5E551 #9BE551
triadic
#E5E551 #51E5E5 #E551E5
tetradic
#E5E551 #51E59B #5151E5 #E5519B
square
#E5E551 #51E59B #5151E5 #E5519B
split-complementary
#E5E551 #519BE5 #9B51E5
monochromatic
#A3A318 #D8D820 #E5E551 #EDED86 #F5F5BB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.34
#E5E551 on #FFFFFF
AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.66
#E5E551 on #000000
AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E551
15.66:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg##E5E551#FFFFFF#000000##000000
##E5E5511.001.3415.6615.66
#FFFFFF1.341.0021.0021.00
#00000015.6621.001.001.00
##00000015.6621.001.001.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)
#F7DC3C
Deuteranopia (green-blind)
#F9E15B
Tritanopia (blue-blind)
#F5D7C7
Achromatopsia (no color)
#DEDEDE

Design tokens & code

CSS
--color: #e5e551;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 229, 81);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.6% 0.165 109.3);
Tailwind
colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ed89',
    500: '#e5e551',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}
SCSS
$custom: #e5e551;
$custom-light: #f1ed89;
$custom-dark: #000000;
JSON
{
  "hex": "#e5e551",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 81
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 74,
    "l": 60.784
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89555,
    "c": 0.16516,
    "h": 109.3
  },
  "luminance": 0.73291
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary
#E5E551
secondary
#3535A6
accent
#0FD60F
background
#FFFEFC
surface
#FFFDF4
border
#D7D5CE
text
#17160C
muted
#85847F

Preview Lab

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#E5E551 Color — HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH & Contrast — Tintiva