#E6D85E#E6D85E

#E6D85E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.667; OKLCH L 87.1% C 0.143 H 102.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.35:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6D85E
RGB	rgb(230, 216, 94)
HSL	hsl(54, 73%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(54, 59%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 6.1%, 59.1%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.38, -9.93, 60.43)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.38, 61.24, 99.33°)
OKLab	oklab(87.05% -0.0316 0.1391)
OKLCH	oklch(87.05% 0.143 102.8)
XYZ	xyz(59.2115, 66.7451, 20.3516)
Luminance	0.6674 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6D85E #5E6CE6

analogous

#E6945E #E6D85E #B0E65E

triadic

#E6D85E #5EE6D8 #D85EE6

tetradic

#E6D85E #5EE694 #5E6CE6 #E65EB0

square

#E6D85E #5EE694 #5E6CE6 #E65EB0

split-complementary

#E6D85E #5EB0E6 #945EE6

monochromatic

#AF9F1B #DECB29 #E6D85E #EEE593 #F6F2C8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.46

#E6D85E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.35

#E6D85E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6D85E

14.35:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6D85E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6D85E	1.00	1.46	14.35	14.35
#FFFFFF	1.46	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.35	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.35	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EAD251

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EED864

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F6CABE

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D5D5D5

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6d85e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 216, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.1% 0.143 102.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1e390',
    500: '#e6d85e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6d85e;
$custom-light: #f1e390;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6d85e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 53.824,
    "s": 73.118,
    "l": 63.529
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87051,
    "c": 0.14262,
    "h": 102.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.66743
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6D85E

secondary

#3945B0

accent

#25D510

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6D85E

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

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