#E6CD50#E6CD50

#E6CD50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.611; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.144 H 97.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.21:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CD50
RGB	rgb(230, 205, 80)
HSL	hsl(50, 75%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(50, 65%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.9%, 65.2%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.42, -5.25, 63.20)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.42, 63.42, 94.75°)
OKLab	oklab(84.66% -0.0198 0.143)
OKLCH	oklch(84.66% 0.144 97.9)
XYZ	xyz(55.9149, 61.0675, 16.4298)
Luminance	0.6107 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CD50 #5069E6

analogous

#E68250 #E6CD50 #B4E650

triadic

#E6CD50 #50E6CD #CD50E6

tetradic

#E6CD50 #50E682 #5069E6 #E650B4

square

#E6CD50 #50E682 #5069E6 #E650B4

split-complementary

#E6CD50 #50B4E6 #8250E6

monochromatic

#A48D17 #DABB1F #E6CD50 #EEDC86 #F5ECBB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E6CD50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.21

#E6CD50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CD50

13.21:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CD50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CD50	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)

#E0C840

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D157

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7BFB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cd50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 205, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.144 97.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1db87',
    500: '#e6cd50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cd50;
$custom-light: #f1db87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cd50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50,
    "s": 75,
    "l": 60.784
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84664,
    "c": 0.14436,
    "h": 97.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.61065
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CD50

secondary

#3447A6

accent

#30D70E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CD50

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

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