#E8E552#E8E552

#E8E552 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.738; OKLCH L 89.8% C 0.164 H 108.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.76:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8E552
RGB	rgb(232, 229, 82)
HSL	hsl(59, 77%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(59, 65%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.3%, 64.7%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(88.83, -16.31, 69.14)
CIE-LCH	lch(88.83, 71.04, 103.28°)
OKLab	oklab(89.81% -0.0511 0.1558)
OKLCH	oklch(89.81% 0.164 108.2)
XYZ	xyz(62.8232, 73.8056, 18.9176)
Luminance	0.7380 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8E552 #5255E8

analogous

#E89A52 #E8E552 #A0E852

triadic

#E8E552 #52E8E5 #E552E8

tetradic

#E8E552 #52E89A #5255E8 #E852A0

square

#E8E552 #52E89A #5255E8 #E852A0

split-complementary

#E8E552 #52A0E8 #9A52E8

monochromatic

#A9A616 #DFDB1E #E8E552 #EFED88 #F6F5BE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.33

#E8E552 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.76

#E8E552 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8E552

15.76:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8E552	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8E552	1.00	1.33	15.76	15.76
#FFFFFF	1.33	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.76	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.76	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F7DC3E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F9E25C

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8D7C7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8e552;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 229, 82);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(89.8% 0.164 108.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3ed8a',
    500: '#e8e552',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8e552;
$custom-light: #f3ed8a;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8e552",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 229,
    "b": 82
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.8,
    "s": 76.531,
    "l": 61.569
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.89809,
    "c": 0.16396,
    "h": 108.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.73804
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8E552

secondary

#3436AB

accent

#11D90D

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8E552

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

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