#E6CC53#E6CC53

#E6CC53 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.606; OKLCH L 84.5% C 0.141 H 97.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.13:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CC53
RGB	rgb(230, 204, 83)
HSL	hsl(49, 75%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(49, 64%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.3%, 63.9%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.18, -4.56, 61.70)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.18, 61.87, 94.23°)
OKLab	oklab(84.49% -0.0175 0.1403)
OKLCH	oklch(84.49% 0.141 97.1)
XYZ	xyz(55.7898, 60.6359, 16.9472)
Luminance	0.6063 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CC53 #536DE6

analogous

#E68353 #E6CC53 #B7E653

triadic

#E6CC53 #53E6CC #CC53E6

tetradic

#E6CC53 #53E683 #536DE6 #E653B7

square

#E6CC53 #53E683 #536DE6 #E653B7

split-complementary

#E6CC53 #53B7E6 #8353E6

monochromatic

#A68D18 #DCBB20 #E6CC53 #EEDC88 #F6ECBE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.60

#E6CC53 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.13

#E6CC53 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CC53

13.13:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CC53	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CC53	1.00	1.60	13.13	13.13
#FFFFFF	1.60	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.13	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.13	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC745

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D059

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7BEB2

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cc53;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 204, 83);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.5% 0.141 97.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1db89',
    500: '#e6cc53',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cc53;
$custom-light: #f1db89;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cc53",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 204,
    "b": 83
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.388,
    "s": 74.619,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84488,
    "c": 0.14134,
    "h": 97.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.60633
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CC53

secondary

#3549A8

accent

#32D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CC53

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

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