#E8D560#E8D560

#E8D560 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.656; OKLCH L 86.6% C 0.138 H 100.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.12:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8D560
RGB	rgb(232, 213, 96)
HSL	hsl(52, 75%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(52, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.2%, 58.6%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.79, -7.46, 58.94)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.79, 59.41, 97.21°)
OKLab	oklab(86.63% -0.0244 0.1361)
OKLCH	oklch(86.63% 0.138 100.2)
XYZ	xyz(59.1865, 65.5912, 20.6068)
Luminance	0.6559 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8D560 #6073E8

analogous

#E89160 #E8D560 #B7E860

triadic

#E8D560 #60E8D5 #D560E8

tetradic

#E8D560 #60E891 #6073E8 #E860B7

square

#E8D560 #60E891 #6073E8 #E860B7

split-complementary

#E8D560 #60B7E8 #9160E8

monochromatic

#B49E1A #E0C72B #E8D560 #F0E395 #F7F1CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.49

#E8D560 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.12

#E8D560 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8D560

14.12:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8D560	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8D560	1.00	1.49	14.12	14.12
#FFFFFF	1.49	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.12	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.12	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7CF54

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#ECD766

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8C7BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8d560;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 213, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.6% 0.138 100.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2e191',
    500: '#e8d560',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8d560;
$custom-light: #f2e191;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8d560",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.618,
    "s": 74.725,
    "l": 64.314
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86631,
    "c": 0.13828,
    "h": 100.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.65589
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8D560

secondary

#384AB4

accent

#2BD70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8D560

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

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