#E5E566#E5E566

#E5E566 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.737; OKLCH L 89.7% C 0.149 H 109.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.73:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E566
RGB	rgb(229, 229, 102)
HSL	hsl(60, 71%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(60, 55%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 55.5%, 10.2%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.76, -16.22, 60.69)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.76, 62.82, 104.96°)
OKLab	oklab(89.75% -0.0486 0.1406)
OKLCH	oklch(89.75% 0.149 109.1)
XYZ	xyz(62.7324, 73.6576, 23.4806)
Luminance	0.7366 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E566 #6666E5

analogous

#E5A666 #E5E566 #A6E566

triadic

#E5E566 #66E5E5 #E566E5

tetradic

#E5E566 #66E5A6 #6666E5 #E566A6

square

#E5E566 #66E5A6 #6666E5 #E566A6

split-complementary

#E5E566 #66A6E5 #A666E5

monochromatic

#B2B21E #DCDC32 #E5E566 #EEEE9A #F7F7CF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.33

#E5E566 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.73

#E5E566 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E566

15.73:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E566	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E566	1.00	1.33	15.73	15.73
#FFFFFF	1.33	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.73	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.73	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F5DC59

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F7E16D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F3D8C9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e566;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 229, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.7% 0.149 109.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ed96',
    500: '#e5e566',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e566;
$custom-light: #f0ed96;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e566",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 70.95,
    "l": 64.902
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89749,
    "c": 0.14876,
    "h": 109.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.73656
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E566

secondary

#3C3CB3

accent

#13D313

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFDF5

border

#D6D5CF

text

#17160E

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E566

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

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