#E6E561#E6E561

#E6E561 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.737; OKLCH L 89.8% C 0.153 H 108.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.75:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E6E561
RGB	rgb(230, 229, 97)
HSL	hsl(60, 73%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(60, 58%, 90%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.4%, 57.8%, 9.8%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.79, -16.18, 62.91)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.79, 64.96, 104.42°)
OKLab	oklab(89.78% -0.049 0.1447)
OKLCH	oklch(89.78% 0.153 108.7)
XYZ	xyz(62.8120, 73.7264, 22.2288)
Luminance	0.7372 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E6E561 #6162E6

analogous

#E6A361 #E6E561 #A5E661

triadic

#E6E561 #61E6E5 #E561E6

tetradic

#E6E561 #61E6A3 #6162E6 #E661A5

square

#E6E561 #61E6A3 #6162E6 #E661A5

split-complementary

#E6E561 #61A5E6 #A361E6

monochromatic

#B1B01C #DEDC2C #E6E561 #EEEE96 #F7F6CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.33

#E6E561 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.75

#E6E561 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E6E561

15.75:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E6E561	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E6E561	1.00	1.33	15.75	15.75
#FFFFFF	1.33	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.75	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.75	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F6DC52

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F8E169

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F5D8C9

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e6e561;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(230, 229, 97);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.8% 0.153 108.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1ed93',
    500: '#e6e561',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e6e561;
$custom-light: #f1ed93;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e6e561",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 230,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 97
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.549,
    "s": 72.678,
    "l": 64.118
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8978,
    "c": 0.15282,
    "h": 108.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.73725
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E6E561

secondary

#3A3BB1

accent

#12D511

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FEFDF4

border

#D6D5CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E6E561

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

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