#E6D562#E6D562

#E6D562 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.653; OKLCH L 86.5% C 0.137 H 101.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.06:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6D562
RGB	rgb(230, 213, 98)
HSL	hsl(52, 73%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(52, 57%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.4%, 57.4%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.64, -8.14, 57.83)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.64, 58.40, 98.01°)
OKLab	oklab(86.48% -0.026 0.134)
OKLCH	oklch(86.48% 0.137 101)
XYZ	xyz(58.6341, 65.2956, 21.0677)
Luminance	0.6529 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6D562 #6273E6

analogous

#E69362 #E6D562 #B5E662

triadic

#E6D562 #62E6D5 #D562E6

tetradic

#E6D562 #62E693 #6273E6 #E662B5

square

#E6D562 #62E693 #6273E6 #E662B5

split-complementary

#E6D562 #62B5E6 #9362E6

monochromatic

#B19E1C #DEC72D #E6D562 #EEE397 #F7F1CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.49

#E6D562 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.06

#E6D562 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6D562

14.06:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6D562	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6D562	1.00	1.49	14.06	14.06
#FFFFFF	1.49	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.06	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.06	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7CF56

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#ECD668

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6C8BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D3D3D3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6d562;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 213, 98);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.5% 0.137 101.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1e192',
    500: '#e6d562',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6d562;
$custom-light: #f1e192;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6d562",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 98
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.273,
    "s": 72.527,
    "l": 64.314
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86476,
    "c": 0.13651,
    "h": 101
  },
  "luminance": 0.65293
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6D562

secondary

#3A4AB2

accent

#2AD511

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6D562

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

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