#E5EC52#E5EC52

#E5EC52 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.773; OKLCH L 91.0% C 0.172 H 111.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.45:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5EC52
RGB	rgb(229, 236, 82)
HSL	hsl(63, 80%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(63, 65%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(3%, 0%, 65.3%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.44, -20.93, 70.73)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.44, 73.76, 106.49°)
OKLab	oklab(91.04% -0.0639 0.1592)
OKLCH	oklch(91.04% 0.172 111.9)
XYZ	xyz(63.8334, 77.2596, 19.5310)
Luminance	0.7726 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5EC52 #5952EC

analogous

#ECA652 #E5EC52 #98EC52

triadic

#E5EC52 #52E5EC #EC52E5

tetradic

#E5EC52 #52ECA6 #5952EC #EC5298

square

#E5EC52 #52ECA6 #5952EC #EC5298

split-complementary

#E5EC52 #5298EC #A652EC

monochromatic

#A9B013 #DDE61B #E5EC52 #EDF289 #F6F8C0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.28

#E5EC52 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.45

#E5EC52 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5EC52

16.45:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5EC52	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5EC52	1.00	1.28	16.45	16.45
#FFFFFF	1.28	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.45	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.45	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FDE23C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FEE65D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F4DECD

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E4E4E4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5ec52;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 236, 82);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(91.0% 0.172 111.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1f18a',
    500: '#e5ec52',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5ec52;
$custom-light: #f1f18a;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5ec52",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 236,
    "b": 82
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 62.727,
    "s": 80.208,
    "l": 62.353
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.91039,
    "c": 0.17156,
    "h": 111.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.77258
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5EC52

secondary

#3732B1

accent

#09DD13

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5EC52

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

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