#E6CC69#E6CC69

#E6CC69 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.610; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.123 H 94.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.21:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CC69
RGB	rgb(230, 204, 105)
HSL	hsl(48, 71%, 66%)
HSV	hsv(48, 54%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.3%, 54.3%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.40, -3.02, 52.02)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.40, 52.11, 93.32°)
OKLab	oklab(84.73% -0.0105 0.1222)
OKLCH	oklch(84.73% 0.123 94.9)
XYZ	xyz(56.7779, 61.0312, 22.1513)
Luminance	0.6103 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CC69 #6983E6

analogous

#E68D69 #E6CC69 #C1E669

triadic

#E6CC69 #69E6CC #CC69E6

tetradic

#E6CC69 #69E68D #6983E6 #E669C1

square

#E6CC69 #69E68D #6983E6 #E669C1

split-complementary

#E6CC69 #69C1E6 #8D69E6

monochromatic

#B6971E #DDBA35 #E6CC69 #EFDE9D #F7F0D2

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E6CC69 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.21

#E6CC69 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CC69

13.21:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CC69	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CC69	1.00	1.59	13.21	13.21
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.21	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.21	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DEC860

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E4D16D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6BFB5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cc69;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 204, 105);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.123 94.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0db96',
    500: '#e6cc69',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cc69;
$custom-light: #f0db96;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cc69",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 204,
    "b": 105
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 47.52,
    "s": 71.429,
    "l": 65.686
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84725,
    "c": 0.12268,
    "h": 94.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.61029
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CC69

secondary

#3D56B6

accent

#3AD312

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFBF5

border

#D6D4CF

text

#17140E

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CC69

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

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