#E7CD66#E7CD66

#E7CD66 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.616; OKLCH L 85.0% C 0.126 H 95.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.32:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E7CD66
RGB	rgb(231, 205, 102)
HSL	hsl(48, 73%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(48, 56%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.3%, 55.8%, 9.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.71, -3.36, 53.82)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.71, 53.92, 93.57°)
OKLab	oklab(84.98% -0.0119 0.1258)
OKLCH	oklch(84.98% 0.126 95.4)
XYZ	xyz(57.1868, 61.6135, 21.4481)
Luminance	0.6161 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E7CD66 #6680E7

analogous

#E78C66 #E7CD66 #C0E766

triadic

#E7CD66 #66E7CD #CD66E7

tetradic

#E7CD66 #66E78C #6680E7 #E766C0

square

#E7CD66 #66E78C #6680E7 #E766C0

split-complementary

#E7CD66 #66C0E7 #8C66E7

monochromatic

#B6971D #DFBC31 #E7CD66 #EFDE9B #F8F0D0

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#E7CD66 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.32

#E7CD66 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E7CD66

13.32:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E7CD66	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E7CD66	1.00	1.58	13.32	13.32
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.32	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.32	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC95C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D16A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7C0B6

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e7cd66;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(231, 205, 102);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.0% 0.126 95.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1dc94',
    500: '#e7cd66',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e7cd66;
$custom-light: #f1dc94;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e7cd66",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 231,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 102
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 47.907,
    "s": 72.881,
    "l": 65.294
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84982,
    "c": 0.12636,
    "h": 95.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.61611
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E7CD66

secondary

#3B54B6

accent

#38D511

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E7CD66

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

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