#E5E560#E5E560

#E5E560 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.735; OKLCH L 89.7% C 0.154 H 109.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.71:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E560
RGB	rgb(229, 229, 96)
HSL	hsl(60, 72%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(60, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 58.1%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.71, -16.65, 63.22)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.71, 65.38, 104.76°)
OKLab	oklab(89.69% -0.0504 0.1453)
OKLCH	oklch(89.69% 0.154 109.1)
XYZ	xyz(62.4455, 73.5428, 21.9698)
Luminance	0.7354 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E560 #6060E5

analogous

#E5A260 #E5E560 #A2E560

triadic

#E5E560 #60E5E5 #E560E5

tetradic

#E5E560 #60E5A2 #6060E5 #E560A2

square

#E5E560 #60E5A2 #6060E5 #E560A2

split-complementary

#E5E560 #60A2E5 #A260E5

monochromatic

#AEAE1C #DCDC2B #E5E560 #EEEE95 #F6F6C9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.34

#E5E560 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.71

#E5E560 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E560

15.71:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E560	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E560	1.00	1.34	15.71	15.71
#FFFFFF	1.34	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.71	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.71	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F6DC51

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F8E168

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4D8C9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e560;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 229, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.7% 0.154 109.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ed92',
    500: '#e5e560',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e560;
$custom-light: #f0ed92;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e560",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 71.892,
    "l": 63.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89688,
    "c": 0.15379,
    "h": 109.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.73541
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E560

secondary

#3A3AAF

accent

#12D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFDF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E560

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

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