#E7CE50#E7CE50

#E7CE50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.617; OKLCH L 85.0% C 0.145 H 98.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.34:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E7CE50
RGB	rgb(231, 206, 80)
HSL	hsl(50, 76%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(50, 65%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.8%, 65.4%, 9.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.76, -5.34, 63.60)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.76, 63.82, 94.80°)
OKLab	oklab(84.96% -0.0201 0.1438)
OKLCH	oklch(84.96% 0.145 98)
XYZ	xyz(56.4768, 61.7134, 16.5249)
Luminance	0.6171 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E7CE50 #5069E7

analogous

#E78250 #E7CE50 #B4E750

triadic

#E7CE50 #50E7CE #CE50E7

tetradic

#E7CE50 #50E782 #5069E7 #E750B4

square

#E7CE50 #50E782 #5069E7 #E750B4

split-complementary

#E7CE50 #50B4E7 #8250E7

monochromatic

#A68E17 #DCBC1E #E7CE50 #EEDD86 #F6ECBC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.57

#E7CE50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.34

#E7CE50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E7CE50

13.34:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E7CE50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E7CE50	1.00	1.57	13.34	13.34
#FFFFFF	1.57	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.34	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.34	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1C940

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E8D257

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8BFB4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e7ce50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(231, 206, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.0% 0.145 98.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2dc87',
    500: '#e7ce50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e7ce50;
$custom-light: #f2dc87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e7ce50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 231,
    "g": 206,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50.066,
    "s": 75.879,
    "l": 60.98
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84959,
    "c": 0.1452,
    "h": 98
  },
  "luminance": 0.61711
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E7CE50

secondary

#3347A8

accent

#2FD80D

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E7CE50

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

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