#E6CD4F#E6CD4F

#E6CD4F is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.611; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.145 H 97.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.21:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CD4F
RGB	rgb(230, 205, 79)
HSL	hsl(50, 75%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(50, 66%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.9%, 65.7%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.41, -5.31, 63.61)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.41, 63.83, 94.77°)
OKLab	oklab(84.66% -0.02 0.1437)
OKLCH	oklch(84.66% 0.145 97.9)
XYZ	xyz(55.8782, 61.0528, 16.2367)
Luminance	0.6105 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CD4F #4F68E6

analogous

#E6814F #E6CD4F #B3E64F

triadic

#E6CD4F #4FE6CD #CD4FE6

tetradic

#E6CD4F #4FE681 #4F68E6 #E64FB3

square

#E6CD4F #4FE681 #4F68E6 #E64FB3

split-complementary

#E6CD4F #4FB3E6 #814FE6

monochromatic

#A38C17 #D9BA1F #E6CD4F #EEDC85 #F5EBBA

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E6CD4F on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.21

#E6CD4F on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CD4F

13.21:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CD4F	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CD4F	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)

#E0C83F

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D156

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7BEB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cd4f;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 205, 79);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.145 97.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1db86',
    500: '#e6cd4f',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cd4f;
$custom-light: #f1db86;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cd4f",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 79
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50.066,
    "s": 75.124,
    "l": 60.588
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84656,
    "c": 0.14509,
    "h": 97.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.6105
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CD4F

secondary

#3346A6

accent

#30D70E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CD4F

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

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