#E6D866#E6D866

#E6D866 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.669; OKLCH L 87.1% C 0.136 H 102.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.38:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6D866
RGB	rgb(230, 216, 102)
HSL	hsl(53, 72%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(53, 56%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 6.1%, 55.7%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.45, -9.35, 56.95)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.45, 57.72, 99.33°)
OKLab	oklab(87.14% -0.029 0.1326)
OKLCH	oklch(87.14% 0.136 102.4)
XYZ	xyz(59.5893, 66.8962, 22.3412)
Luminance	0.6689 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6D866 #6674E6

analogous

#E69866 #E6D866 #B4E666

triadic

#E6D866 #66E6D8 #D866E6

tetradic

#E6D866 #66E698 #6674E6 #E666B4

square

#E6D866 #66E698 #6674E6 #E666B4

split-complementary

#E6D866 #66B4E6 #9866E6

monochromatic

#B4A41D #DDCB31 #E6D866 #EFE59B #F7F3CF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.46

#E6D866 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.38

#E6D866 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6D866

14.38:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6D866	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6D866	1.00	1.46	14.38	14.38
#FFFFFF	1.46	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.38	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.38	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E9D25B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EED86C

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5CBBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D6D6D6

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6d866;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 216, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.1% 0.136 102.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f0e395',
    500: '#e6d866',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6d866;
$custom-light: #f0e395;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6d866",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 53.438,
    "s": 71.91,
    "l": 65.098
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87136,
    "c": 0.13573,
    "h": 102.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.66894
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6D866

secondary

#3C49B5

accent

#27D412

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFCF5

border

#D6D5CF

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6D866

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

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