#E6CD4E#E6CD4E

#E6CD4E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.610; OKLCH L 84.6% C 0.146 H 98.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.21:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CD4E
RGB	rgb(230, 205, 78)
HSL	hsl(50, 75%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(50, 66%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.9%, 66.1%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.40, -5.36, 64.01)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.40, 64.24, 94.79°)
OKLab	oklab(84.65% -0.0203 0.1444)
OKLCH	oklch(84.65% 0.146 98)
XYZ	xyz(55.8421, 61.0384, 16.0464)
Luminance	0.6104 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CD4E #4E67E6

analogous

#E6814E #E6CD4E #B3E64E

triadic

#E6CD4E #4EE6CD #CD4EE6

tetradic

#E6CD4E #4EE681 #4E67E6 #E64EB3

square

#E6CD4E #4EE681 #4E67E6 #E64EB3

split-complementary

#E6CD4E #4EB3E6 #814EE6

monochromatic

#A38C17 #D8BA1F #E6CD4E #EEDC84 #F5EBB9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E6CD4E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.21

#E6CD4E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CD4E

13.21:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CD4E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CD4E	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)

#E0C83E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D155

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7BEB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cd4e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 205, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.6% 0.146 98.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1db86',
    500: '#e6cd4e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cd4e;
$custom-light: #f1db86;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cd4e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50.132,
    "s": 75.248,
    "l": 60.392
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84647,
    "c": 0.14582,
    "h": 98
  },
  "luminance": 0.61036
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CD4E

secondary

#3346A5

accent

#2FD70E

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFBF2

border

#D7D4CC

text

#17150B

muted

#85847E

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CD4E

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

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