#E5E948#E5E948

#E5E948 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.754; OKLCH L 90.3% C 0.175 H 110.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.08:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E948
RGB	rgb(229, 233, 72)
HSL	hsl(61, 79%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(61, 69%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(1.7%, 0%, 69.1%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.58, -20.02, 73.54)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.58, 76.21, 105.23°)
OKLab	oklab(90.33% -0.0623 0.1636)
OKLCH	oklch(90.33% 0.175 110.9)
XYZ	xyz(62.6238, 75.4054, 17.3855)
Luminance	0.7540 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E948 #4C48E9

analogous

#E99D48 #E5E948 #94E948

triadic

#E5E948 #48E5E9 #E948E5

tetradic

#E5E948 #48E99D #4C48E9 #E94894

square

#E5E948 #48E99D #4C48E9 #E94894

split-complementary

#E5E948 #4894E9 #9D48E9

monochromatic

#9FA314 #D5DA1A #E5E948 #EDF07F #F5F6B5

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.31

#E5E948 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.08

#E5E948 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E948

16.08:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E948	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E948	1.00	1.31	16.08	16.08
#FFFFFF	1.31	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.08	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.08	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FBDF2D

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FCE354

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5DBC9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E1E1E1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e948;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 233, 72);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.3% 0.175 110.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ef85',
    500: '#e5e948',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e948;
$custom-light: #f1ef85;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e948",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 233,
    "b": 72
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 61.491,
    "s": 78.537,
    "l": 59.804
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90332,
    "c": 0.17502,
    "h": 110.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.75404
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E948

secondary

#3330A5

accent

#33F538

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF3

border

#D7D6CD

text

#17160C

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E948

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

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