#E5E649#E5E649

#E5E649 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.737; OKLCH L 89.7% C 0.171 H 109.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.75:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX#E5E649
RGBrgb(229, 230, 73)
HSLhsl(60, 76%, 59%)
HSVhsv(60, 68%, 90%)
CMYKcmyk(0.4%, 0%, 68.3%, 9.8%)
CIE-LABlab(88.80, -18.51, 72.41)
CIE-LCHlch(88.80, 74.73, 104.34°)
OKLaboklab(89.71% -0.058 0.1613)
OKLCHoklch(89.71% 0.171 109.8)
XYZxyz(61.8146, 73.7344, 17.2780)
Luminance0.7373 (WCAG relative)
Temperaturewarm
Familyyellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary
#E5E649 #4A49E6
analogous
#E69949 #E5E649 #97E649
triadic
#E5E649 #49E5E6 #E649E5
tetradic
#E5E649 #49E699 #4A49E6 #E64997
square
#E5E649 #49E699 #4A49E6 #E64997
split-complementary
#E5E649 #4997E6 #9949E6
monochromatic
#9E9F16 #D3D51D #E5E649 #EDED7F #F4F5B5

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.33
#E5E649 on #FFFFFF
AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.75
#E5E649 on #000000
AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E649
15.75:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg##E5E649#FFFFFF#000000##000000
##E5E6491.001.3315.7515.75
#FFFFFF1.331.0021.0021.00
#00000015.7521.001.001.00
##00000015.7521.001.001.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)
#F8DC2F
Deuteranopia (green-blind)
#FAE154
Tritanopia (blue-blind)
#F5D8C7
Achromatopsia (no color)
#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS
--color: #e5e649;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 230, 73);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.7% 0.171 109.8);
Tailwind
colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ed85',
    500: '#e5e649',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}
SCSS
$custom: #e5e649;
$custom-light: #f1ed85;
$custom-dark: #000000;
JSON
{
  "hex": "#e5e649",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 230,
    "b": 73
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60.382,
    "s": 75.845,
    "l": 59.412
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89706,
    "c": 0.17145,
    "h": 109.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.73733
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary
#E5E649
secondary
#3232A2
accent
#35F237
background
#FFFEFC
surface
#FFFDF3
border
#D7D5CD
text
#17160C
muted
#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E649

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#E5E649 Color — HEX, RGB, HSL, OKLCH & Contrast — Tintiva