#E6B944#E6B944

#E6B944 is a light, vivid orange. Relative luminance 0.519; OKLCH L 80.6% C 0.140 H 87.3°. Best body text is #000000 at 11.39:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6B944
RGB	rgb(230, 185, 68)
HSL	hsl(43, 76%, 58%)
HSV	hsv(43, 70%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 19.6%, 70.4%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(77.25, 4.45, 62.78)
CIE-LCH	lch(77.25, 62.94, 85.94°)
OKLab	oklab(80.55% 0.0067 0.1401)
OKLCH	oklch(80.55% 0.14 87.3)
XYZ	xyz(51.0284, 51.9416, 12.8058)
Luminance	0.5194 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	orange

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6B944 #4471E6

analogous

#E66844 #E6B944 #C2E644

triadic

#E6B944 #44E6B9 #B944E6

tetradic

#E6B944 #44E668 #4471E6 #E644C2

square

#E6B944 #44E668 #4471E6 #E644C2

split-complementary

#E6B944 #44C2E6 #6844E6

monochromatic

#9B7615 #D19F1C #E6B944 #EDCD7A #F4E1B0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.84

#E6B944 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

11.39

#E6B944 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6B944

11.39:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6B944	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6B944	1.00	1.84	11.39	11.39
#FFFFFF	1.84	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	11.39	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	11.39	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#CEB834

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#D9C449

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F9A9A1

Achromatopsia (no color)

#BFBFBF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6b944;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 185, 68);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(80.6% 0.140 87.3);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2cd7e',
    500: '#e6b944',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6b944;
$custom-light: #f2cd7e;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6b944",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 185,
    "b": 68
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 43.333,
    "s": 76.415,
    "l": 58.431
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.80553,
    "c": 0.14026,
    "h": 87.3
  },
  "luminance": 0.51938
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6B944

secondary

#304F9E

accent

#6AF335

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFAF2

border

#D7D3CC

text

#18130A

muted

#86837D

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6B944

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

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