#E8C950#E8C950

#E8C950 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.595; OKLCH L 84.0% C 0.142 H 94.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.90:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8C950
RGB	rgb(232, 201, 80)
HSL	hsl(48, 77%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(48, 66%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 13.4%, 65.5%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(81.57, -2.36, 62.37)
CIE-LCH	lch(81.57, 62.41, 92.17°)
OKLab	oklab(84.04% -0.0116 0.1412)
OKLCH	oklch(84.04% 0.142 94.7)
XYZ	xyz(55.6160, 59.5112, 16.1452)
Luminance	0.5951 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8C950 #506FE8

analogous

#E87D50 #E8C950 #BBE850

triadic

#E8C950 #50E8C9 #C950E8

tetradic

#E8C950 #50E87D #506FE8 #E850BB

square

#E8C950 #50E87D #506FE8 #E850BB

split-complementary

#E8C950 #50BBE8 #7D50E8

monochromatic

#A88A16 #DEB61D #E8C950 #EFDA86 #F6EABC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.63

#E8C950 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.90

#E8C950 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8C950

12.90:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8C950	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8C950	1.00	1.63	12.90	12.90
#FFFFFF	1.63	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.90	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.90	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DDC541

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5CF56

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FABAB0

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CBCBCB

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8c950;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 201, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.0% 0.142 94.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3d987',
    500: '#e8c950',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8c950;
$custom-light: #f3d987;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8c950",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 201,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 47.763,
    "s": 76.768,
    "l": 61.176
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84039,
    "c": 0.14165,
    "h": 94.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.59508
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8C950

secondary

#334BA9

accent

#36D90D

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF3

border

#D7D4CD

text

#17140C

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8C950

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

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