#E7D661#E7D661

#E7D661 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.659; OKLCH L 86.8% C 0.138 H 101.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.19:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E7D661
RGB	rgb(231, 214, 97)
HSL	hsl(52, 74%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(52, 58%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.4%, 58%, 9.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.97, -8.30, 58.68)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.97, 59.26, 98.05°)
OKLab	oklab(86.76% -0.0266 0.1357)
OKLCH	oklch(86.76% 0.138 101.1)
XYZ	xyz(59.1614, 65.9474, 20.9197)
Luminance	0.6594 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E7D661 #6172E7

analogous

#E79361 #E7D661 #B5E761

triadic

#E7D661 #61E7D6 #D661E7

tetradic

#E7D661 #61E793 #6172E7 #E761B5

square

#E7D661 #61E793 #6172E7 #E761B5

split-complementary

#E7D661 #61B5E7 #9361E7

monochromatic

#B29F1B #DFC82C #E7D661 #EFE496 #F7F2CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.48

#E7D661 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.19

#E7D661 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E7D661

14.19:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E7D661	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E7D661	1.00	1.48	14.19	14.19
#FFFFFF	1.48	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.19	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.19	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E8D055

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EDD767

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7C9BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e7d661;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(231, 214, 97);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.8% 0.138 101.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f1e292',
    500: '#e7d661',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e7d661;
$custom-light: #f1e292;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e7d661",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 231,
    "g": 214,
    "b": 97
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.388,
    "s": 73.626,
    "l": 64.314
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86758,
    "c": 0.13828,
    "h": 101.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.65945
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E7D661

secondary

#3949B3

accent

#29D610

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E7D661

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

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