#E8D562#E8D562

#E8D562 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.656; OKLCH L 86.7% C 0.137 H 100.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.13:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8D562
RGB	rgb(232, 213, 98)
HSL	hsl(51, 74%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(51, 58%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.2%, 57.8%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.81, -7.32, 58.07)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.81, 58.53, 97.18°)
OKLab	oklab(86.65% -0.0238 0.1345)
OKLCH	oklch(86.65% 0.137 100)
XYZ	xyz(59.2798, 65.6285, 21.0979)
Luminance	0.6563 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8D562 #6275E8

analogous

#E89262 #E8D562 #B8E862

triadic

#E8D562 #62E8D5 #D562E8

tetradic

#E8D562 #62E892 #6275E8 #E862B8

square

#E8D562 #62E892 #6275E8 #E862B8

split-complementary

#E8D562 #62B8E8 #9262E8

monochromatic

#B59F1B #E0C72D #E8D562 #F0E397 #F8F2CD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.49

#E8D562 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.13

#E8D562 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8D562

14.13:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8D562	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8D562	1.00	1.49	14.13	14.13
#FFFFFF	1.49	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.13	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.13	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7D056

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#ECD768

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8C7BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8d562;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 213, 98);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.7% 0.137 100.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2e192',
    500: '#e8d562',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8d562;
$custom-light: #f2e192;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8d562",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 98
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.493,
    "s": 74.444,
    "l": 64.706
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86652,
    "c": 0.13656,
    "h": 100
  },
  "luminance": 0.65626
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8D562

secondary

#394BB5

accent

#2BD70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8D562

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

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