#E6CB53#E6CB53

#E6CB53 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.602; OKLCH L 84.3% C 0.141 H 96.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.03:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CB53
RGB	rgb(230, 203, 83)
HSL	hsl(49, 75%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(49, 64%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.7%, 63.9%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(81.93, -4.05, 61.42)
CIE-LCH	lch(81.93, 61.56, 93.77°)
OKLab	oklab(84.29% -0.016 0.1397)
OKLCH	oklch(84.29% 0.141 96.5)
XYZ	xyz(55.5529, 60.1621, 16.8682)
Luminance	0.6016 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CB53 #536EE6

analogous

#E68253 #E6CB53 #B7E653

triadic

#E6CB53 #53E6CB #CB53E6

tetradic

#E6CB53 #53E682 #536EE6 #E653B7

square

#E6CB53 #53E682 #536EE6 #E653B7

split-complementary

#E6CB53 #53B7E6 #8253E6

monochromatic

#A68C18 #DCB920 #E6CB53 #EEDB88 #F6EBBE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.61

#E6CB53 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.03

#E6CB53 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CB53

13.03:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CB53	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CB53	1.00	1.61	13.03	13.03
#FFFFFF	1.61	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.03	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.03	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DEC745

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5CF59

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7BDB2

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cb53;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 203, 83);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.3% 0.141 96.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1da88',
    500: '#e6cb53',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cb53;
$custom-light: #f1da88;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cb53",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 203,
    "b": 83
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 48.98,
    "s": 74.619,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84285,
    "c": 0.14059,
    "h": 96.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.60159
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CB53

secondary

#354AA8

accent

#33D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CB53

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

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