#E5E554#E5E554

#E5E554 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.733; OKLCH L 89.6% C 0.163 H 109.3°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.67:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E554
RGB	rgb(229, 229, 84)
HSL	hsl(60, 74%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(60, 63%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 63.3%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.61, -17.42, 68.05)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.61, 70.25, 104.36°)
OKLab	oklab(89.58% -0.0538 0.1539)
OKLCH	oklch(89.58% 0.163 109.3)
XYZ	xyz(61.9346, 73.3385, 19.2790)
Luminance	0.7334 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E554 #5454E5

analogous

#E59D54 #E5E554 #9DE554

triadic

#E5E554 #54E5E5 #E554E5

tetradic

#E5E554 #54E59D #5454E5 #E5549D

square

#E5E554 #54E59D #5454E5 #E5549D

split-complementary

#E5E554 #549DE5 #9D54E5

monochromatic

#A5A519 #DBDB21 #E5E554 #EDED89 #F5F5BE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.34

#E5E554 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.67

#E5E554 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E554

15.67:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E554	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E554	1.00	1.34	15.67	15.67
#FFFFFF	1.34	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.67	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.67	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F7DC41

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F8E15D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4D7C7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DEDEDE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e554;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 229, 84);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.6% 0.163 109.3);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ed8b',
    500: '#e5e554',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e554;
$custom-light: #f0ed8b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e554",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 84
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 73.604,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8958,
    "c": 0.16303,
    "h": 109.3
  },
  "luminance": 0.73337
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E554

secondary

#3636A8

accent

#10D610

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E554

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

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