#E8D661#E8D661

#E8D661 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.661; OKLCH L 86.8% C 0.138 H 100.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.22:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8D661
RGB	rgb(232, 214, 97)
HSL	hsl(52, 75%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(52, 58%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 7.8%, 58.2%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.05, -7.89, 58.80)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.05, 59.33, 97.65°)
OKLab	oklab(86.85% -0.0255 0.1359)
OKLCH	oklch(86.85% 0.138 100.6)
XYZ	xyz(59.4851, 66.1144, 20.9349)
Luminance	0.6611 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8D661 #6173E8

analogous

#E89361 #E8D661 #B7E861

triadic

#E8D661 #61E8D6 #D661E8

tetradic

#E8D661 #61E893 #6173E8 #E861B7

square

#E8D661 #61E893 #6173E8 #E861B7

split-complementary

#E8D661 #61B7E8 #9361E8

monochromatic

#B4A01A #E0C82C #E8D661 #F0E496 #F8F2CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.48

#E8D661 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.22

#E8D661 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8D661

14.22:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8D661	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8D661	1.00	1.48	14.22	14.22
#FFFFFF	1.48	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.22	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.22	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E8D055

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EDD867

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8C8BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8d661;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 214, 97);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.8% 0.138 100.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2e292',
    500: '#e8d661',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8d661;
$custom-light: #f2e292;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8d661",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 214,
    "b": 97
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52,
    "s": 74.586,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86846,
    "c": 0.1383,
    "h": 100.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.66112
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8D661

secondary

#3949B5

accent

#29D70F

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8D661

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

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