#E7CE57#E7CE57

#E7CE57 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.618; OKLCH L 85.0% C 0.140 H 97.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.36:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E7CE57
RGB	rgb(231, 206, 87)
HSL	hsl(50, 75%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(50, 62%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.8%, 62.3%, 9.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.82, -4.92, 60.70)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.82, 60.89, 94.63°)
OKLab	oklab(85.02% -0.0181 0.1387)
OKLCH	oklch(85.02% 0.14 97.4)
XYZ	xyz(56.7490, 61.8223, 17.9587)
Luminance	0.6182 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E7CE57 #5770E7

analogous

#E78657 #E7CE57 #B8E757

triadic

#E7CE57 #57E7CE #CE57E7

tetradic

#E7CE57 #57E786 #5770E7 #E757B8

square

#E7CE57 #57E786 #5770E7 #E757B8

split-complementary

#E7CE57 #57B8E7 #8657E7

monochromatic

#AB9218 #DFBE21 #E7CE57 #EFDE8D #F6EDC2

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.57

#E7CE57 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.36

#E7CE57 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E7CE57

13.36:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E7CE57	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E7CE57	1.00	1.57	13.36	13.36
#FFFFFF	1.57	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.36	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.36	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1C949

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D25D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8C0B5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e7ce57;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(231, 206, 87);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.0% 0.140 97.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2dc8b',
    500: '#e7ce57',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e7ce57;
$custom-light: #f2dc8b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e7ce57",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 231,
    "g": 206,
    "b": 87
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.583,
    "s": 75,
    "l": 62.353
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85024,
    "c": 0.13985,
    "h": 97.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.6182
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E7CE57

secondary

#364AAC

accent

#31D70E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E7CE57

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

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