#E6D565#E6D565

#E6D565 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.654; OKLCH L 86.5% C 0.134 H 100.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.07:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6D565
RGB	rgb(230, 213, 101)
HSL	hsl(52, 72%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(52, 56%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.4%, 56.1%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.67, -7.92, 56.51)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.67, 57.06, 97.97°)
OKLab	oklab(86.51% -0.025 0.1315)
OKLCH	oklch(86.51% 0.134 100.8)
XYZ	xyz(58.7784, 65.3533, 21.8277)
Luminance	0.6535 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6D565 #6576E6

analogous

#E69565 #E6D565 #B7E665

triadic

#E6D565 #65E6D5 #D565E6

tetradic

#E6D565 #65E695 #6576E6 #E665B7

square

#E6D565 #65E695 #6576E6 #E665B7

split-complementary

#E6D565 #65B7E6 #9565E6

monochromatic

#B3A01D #DDC730 #E6D565 #EFE39A #F7F2CE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.49

#E6D565 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.07

#E6D565 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6D565

14.07:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6D565	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6D565	1.00	1.49	14.07	14.07
#FFFFFF	1.49	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.07	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.07	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E6CF5A

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EBD66A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6C8BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D3D3D3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6d565;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 213, 101);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.5% 0.134 100.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1e194',
    500: '#e6d565',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6d565;
$custom-light: #f1e194;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6d565",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 101
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.093,
    "s": 72.067,
    "l": 64.902
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86509,
    "c": 0.13388,
    "h": 100.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.65351
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6D565

secondary

#3B4BB4

accent

#2BD411

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6D565

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

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