#E5E866#E5E866

#E5E866 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.753; OKLCH L 90.4% C 0.152 H 110.3°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.07:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E866
RGB	rgb(229, 232, 102)
HSL	hsl(61, 74%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(61, 56%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(1.3%, 0%, 56%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.55, -17.69, 61.57)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.55, 64.06, 106.03°)
OKLab	oklab(90.38% -0.0527 0.1425)
OKLCH	oklch(90.38% 0.152 110.3)
XYZ	xyz(63.5696, 75.3321, 23.7596)
Luminance	0.7533 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E866 #6966E8

analogous

#E8AA66 #E5E866 #A4E866

triadic

#E5E866 #66E5E8 #E866E5

tetradic

#E5E866 #66E8AA #6966E8 #E866A4

square

#E5E866 #66E8AA #6966E8 #E866A4

split-complementary

#E5E866 #66A4E8 #AA66E8

monochromatic

#B4B81C #DCE031 #E5E866 #EEF09B #F7F8D0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.31

#E5E866 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.07

#E5E866 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E866

16.07:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E866	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E866	1.00	1.31	16.07	16.07
#FFFFFF	1.31	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.07	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.07	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F8DF58

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FAE36D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F3DBCC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E1E1E1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e866;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 232, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.4% 0.152 110.3);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ef96',
    500: '#e5e866',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e866;
$custom-light: #f0ef96;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e866",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 61.385,
    "s": 73.864,
    "l": 65.49
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90378,
    "c": 0.15195,
    "h": 110.3
  },
  "luminance": 0.75331
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E866

secondary

#3D3AB8

accent

#10D614

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FEFEF5

border

#D6D6CF

text

#17160E

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E866

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

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