#E7D559#E7D559

#E7D559 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.653; OKLCH L 86.5% C 0.144 H 101.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.06:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E7D559
RGB	rgb(231, 213, 89)
HSL	hsl(52, 75%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(52, 61%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.8%, 61.5%, 9.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.64, -8.34, 61.81)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.64, 62.37, 97.69°)
OKLab	oklab(86.47% -0.0277 0.1413)
OKLCH	oklch(86.47% 0.144 101.1)
XYZ	xyz(58.5547, 65.3011, 18.9693)
Luminance	0.6530 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E7D559 #596BE7

analogous

#E78E59 #E7D559 #B2E759

triadic

#E7D559 #59E7D5 #D559E7

tetradic

#E7D559 #59E78E #596BE7 #E759B2

square

#E7D559 #59E78E #596BE7 #E759B2

split-complementary

#E7D559 #59B2E7 #8E59E7

monochromatic

#AD9A19 #DFC724 #E7D559 #EFE38E #F6F0C4

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.49

#E7D559 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.06

#E7D559 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E7D559

14.06:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E7D559	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E7D559	1.00	1.49	14.06	14.06
#FFFFFF	1.49	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.06	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.06	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7CF4B

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EDD760

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7C7BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D3D3D3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e7d559;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(231, 213, 89);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.5% 0.144 101.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2e18d',
    500: '#e7d559',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e7d559;
$custom-light: #f2e18d;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e7d559",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 231,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 89
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.394,
    "s": 74.737,
    "l": 62.745
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86472,
    "c": 0.14401,
    "h": 101.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.65299
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E7D559

secondary

#3646AE

accent

#28D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E7D559

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

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