#E5ED5D#E5ED5D

#E5ED5D is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.780; OKLCH L 91.3% C 0.165 H 112.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.60:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E5ED5D
RGB	rgb(229, 237, 93)
HSL	hsl(63, 80%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(63, 61%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(3.4%, 0%, 60.8%, 7.1%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.79, -20.74, 66.74)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.79, 69.89, 107.26°)
OKLab	oklab(91.34% -0.0623 0.1524)
OKLCH	oklch(91.34% 0.165 112.2)
XYZ	xyz(64.5748, 78.0181, 22.0111)
Luminance	0.7802 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E5ED5D #655DED

analogous

#EDAD5D #E5ED5D #9DED5D

triadic

#E5ED5D #5DE5ED #ED5DE5

tetradic

#E5ED5D #5DEDAD #655DED #ED5D9D

square

#E5ED5D #5DEDAD #655DED #ED5D9D

split-complementary

#E5ED5D #5D9DED #AD5DED

monochromatic

#B2BB15 #DCE726 #E5ED5D #EEF394 #F7F9CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.26

#E5ED5D on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.60

#E5ED5D on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E5ED5D

16.60:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E5ED5D	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E5ED5D	1.00	1.26	16.60	16.60
#FFFFFF	1.26	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.60	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.60	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FEE34C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FEE666

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F3E0CF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E5E5E5

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e5ed5d;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(229, 237, 93);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(91.3% 0.165 112.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0f291',
    500: '#e5ed5d',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e5ed5d;
$custom-light: #f0f291;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e5ed5d",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 229,
    "g": 237,
    "b": 93
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 63.333,
    "s": 80,
    "l": 64.706
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.91343,
    "c": 0.1646,
    "h": 112.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.78017
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E5ED5D

secondary

#3C34BA

accent

#09DC15

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FEFEF4

border

#D6D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E5ED5D

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

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