#E6CD53#E6CD53

#E6CD53 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.611; OKLCH L 84.7% C 0.142 H 97.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.22:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CD53
RGB	rgb(230, 205, 83)
HSL	hsl(50, 75%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(50, 64%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.9%, 63.9%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.44, -5.07, 61.97)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.44, 62.18, 94.68°)
OKLab	oklab(84.69% -0.0189 0.1408)
OKLCH	oklch(84.69% 0.142 97.7)
XYZ	xyz(56.0282, 61.1128, 17.0267)
Luminance	0.6111 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CD53 #536CE6

analogous

#E68453 #E6CD53 #B6E653

triadic

#E6CD53 #53E6CD #CD53E6

tetradic

#E6CD53 #53E684 #536CE6 #E653B6

square

#E6CD53 #53E684 #536CE6 #E653B6

split-complementary

#E6CD53 #53B6E6 #8453E6

monochromatic

#A68E18 #DCBC20 #E6CD53 #EEDD88 #F6ECBE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.59

#E6CD53 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.22

#E6CD53 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CD53

13.22:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CD53	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CD53	1.00	1.59	13.22	13.22
#FFFFFF	1.59	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.22	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.22	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E0C844

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D159

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7BFB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CDCDCD

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6cd53;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 205, 83);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.7% 0.142 97.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1db89',
    500: '#e6cd53',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6cd53;
$custom-light: #f1db89;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6cd53",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 83
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.796,
    "s": 74.619,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84691,
    "c": 0.14211,
    "h": 97.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.6111
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CD53

secondary

#3548A8

accent

#31D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CD53

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

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