#E8CD57#E8CD57

#E8CD57 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.615; OKLCH L 84.9% C 0.139 H 96.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.30:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8CD57
RGB	rgb(232, 205, 87)
HSL	hsl(49, 76%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(49, 63%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.6%, 62.5%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.65, -3.99, 60.54)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.65, 60.67, 93.77°)
OKLab	oklab(84.91% -0.0155 0.1383)
OKLCH	oklch(84.91% 0.139 96.4)
XYZ	xyz(56.8328, 61.5093, 17.8939)
Luminance	0.6151 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8CD57 #5772E8

analogous

#E88557 #E8CD57 #BAE857

triadic

#E8CD57 #57E8CD #CD57E8

tetradic

#E8CD57 #57E885 #5772E8 #E857BA

square

#E8CD57 #57E885 #5772E8 #E857BA

split-complementary

#E8CD57 #57BAE8 #8557E8

monochromatic

#AD9118 #E1BD21 #E8CD57 #EFDD8D #F7EDC3

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#E8CD57 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.30

#E8CD57 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8CD57

13.30:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8CD57	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8CD57	1.00	1.58	13.30	13.30
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.30	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.30	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E0C94A

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D25D

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F9BFB4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8cd57;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 205, 87);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.9% 0.139 96.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3db8b',
    500: '#e8cd57',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8cd57;
$custom-light: #f3db8b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8cd57",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 87
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 48.828,
    "s": 75.916,
    "l": 62.549
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84913,
    "c": 0.13918,
    "h": 96.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.61507
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8CD57

secondary

#354CAE

accent

#33D80D

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8CD57

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

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