#E5E85B#E5E85B

#E5E85B is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.751; OKLCH L 90.3% C 0.161 H 110.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.03:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E85B
RGB	rgb(229, 232, 91)
HSL	hsl(61, 75%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(61, 61%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(1.3%, 0%, 60.8%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.45, -18.45, 66.12)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.45, 68.65, 105.59°)
OKLab	oklab(90.27% -0.056 0.1508)
OKLCH	oklch(90.27% 0.161 110.4)
XYZ	xyz(63.0599, 75.1282, 21.0749)
Luminance	0.7513 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E85B #5E5BE8

analogous

#E8A55B #E5E85B #9EE85B

triadic

#E5E85B #5BE5E8 #E85BE5

tetradic

#E5E85B #5BE8A5 #5E5BE8 #E85B9E

square

#E5E85B #5BE8A5 #5E5BE8 #E85B9E

split-complementary

#E5E85B #5B9EE8 #A55BE8

monochromatic

#ADB019 #DCE025 #E5E85B #EEF091 #F6F7C6

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.31

#E5E85B on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.03

#E5E85B on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E85B

16.03:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E85B	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E85B	1.00	1.31	16.03	16.03
#FFFFFF	1.31	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.03	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.03	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F9DF4A

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FAE364

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4DBCA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E1E1E1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e85b;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 232, 91);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.3% 0.161 110.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ef8f',
    500: '#e5e85b',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e85b;
$custom-light: #f0ef8f;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e85b",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 91
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 61.277,
    "s": 75.401,
    "l": 63.333
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90271,
    "c": 0.16086,
    "h": 110.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.75127
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E85B

secondary

#3937B1

accent

#0ED812

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FEFEF4

border

#D6D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E85B

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

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