#E6CE59#E6CE59

#E6CE59 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.617; OKLCH L 85.0% C 0.138 H 97.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.34:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6CE59
RGB	rgb(230, 206, 89)
HSL	hsl(50, 74%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(50, 61%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.4%, 61.3%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.75, -5.20, 59.72)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.75, 59.95, 94.98°)
OKLab	oklab(84.95% -0.0186 0.1369)
OKLCH	oklch(84.95% 0.138 97.7)
XYZ	xyz(56.5100, 61.6894, 18.3799)
Luminance	0.6169 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6CE59 #5971E6

analogous

#E68759 #E6CE59 #B8E659

triadic

#E6CE59 #59E6CE #CE59E6

tetradic

#E6CE59 #59E687 #5971E6 #E659B8

square

#E6CE59 #59E687 #5971E6 #E659B8

split-complementary

#E6CE59 #59B8E6 #8759E6

monochromatic

#AB921A #DEBE24 #E6CE59 #EEDE8E #F6EDC3

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.57

#E6CE59 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.34

#E6CE59 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6CE59

13.34:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6CE59	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6CE59	1.00	1.57	13.34	13.34
#FFFFFF	1.57	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.34	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.34	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1C94C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D25F

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7C0B5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6ce59;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 206, 89);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.0% 0.138 97.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1dc8c',
    500: '#e6ce59',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6ce59;
$custom-light: #f1dc8c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6ce59",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 206,
    "b": 89
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.787,
    "s": 73.822,
    "l": 62.549
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84953,
    "c": 0.13817,
    "h": 97.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.61687
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6CE59

secondary

#374BAC

accent

#31D610

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6CE59

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

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