#E5E960#E5E960

#E5E960 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.758; OKLCH L 90.5% C 0.158 H 110.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.16:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5E960
RGB	rgb(229, 233, 96)
HSL	hsl(62, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(62, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(1.7%, 0%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.76, -18.60, 64.38)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.76, 67.01, 106.12°)
OKLab	oklab(90.53% -0.0559 0.1477)
OKLCH	oklch(90.53% 0.158 110.7)
XYZ	xyz(63.5651, 75.7819, 22.3430)
Luminance	0.7578 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5E960 #6460E9

analogous

#E9A960 #E5E960 #A1E960

triadic

#E5E960 #60E5E9 #E960E5

tetradic

#E5E960 #60E9A9 #6460E9 #E960A1

square

#E5E960 #60E9A9 #6460E9 #E960A1

split-complementary

#E5E960 #60A1E9 #A960E9

monochromatic

#B1B519 #DCE22A #E5E960 #EEF096 #F7F8CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.30

#E5E960 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.16

#E5E960 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5E960

16.16:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5E960	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5E960	1.00	1.30	16.16	16.16
#FFFFFF	1.30	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.16	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.16	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FAE050

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FBE468

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F3DCCC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E2E2E2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5e960;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 233, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.5% 0.158 110.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0ef92',
    500: '#e5e960',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5e960;
$custom-light: #f0ef92;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5e960",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 233,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 61.752,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90528,
    "c": 0.15798,
    "h": 110.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.7578
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5E960

secondary

#3B38B5

accent

#0ED814

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FEFEF4

border

#D6D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5E960

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

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