#E8CD60#E8CD60

#E8CD60 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.617; OKLCH L 85.0% C 0.132 H 95.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.33:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8CD60
RGB	rgb(232, 205, 96)
HSL	hsl(48, 75%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(48, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11.6%, 58.6%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.74, -3.39, 56.63)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.74, 56.73, 93.42°)
OKLab	oklab(85.01% -0.0127 0.1312)
OKLCH	oklch(85.01% 0.132 95.5)
XYZ	xyz(57.2237, 61.6656, 19.9525)
Luminance	0.6166 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8CD60 #607BE8

analogous

#E88960 #E8CD60 #BFE860

triadic

#E8CD60 #60E8CD #CD60E8

tetradic

#E8CD60 #60E889 #607BE8 #E860BF

square

#E8CD60 #60E889 #607BE8 #E860BF

split-complementary

#E8CD60 #60BFE8 #8960E8

monochromatic

#B4951A #E0BC2B #E8CD60 #F0DE95 #F7EFCB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#E8CD60 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.33

#E8CD60 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8CD60

13.33:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8CD60	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8CD60	1.00	1.58	13.33	13.33
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.33	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.33	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DFC955

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D265

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F9BFB5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8cd60;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 205, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.0% 0.132 95.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2dc91',
    500: '#e8cd60',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8cd60;
$custom-light: #f2dc91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8cd60",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 48.088,
    "s": 74.725,
    "l": 64.314
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85006,
    "c": 0.13177,
    "h": 95.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.61663
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8CD60

secondary

#3851B4

accent

#36D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8CD60

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

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