#E8E85E#E8E85E

#E8E85E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.757; OKLCH L 90.5% C 0.158 H 109.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.14:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8E85E
RGB	rgb(232, 232, 94)
HSL	hsl(60, 75%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(60, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 59.5%, 9%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.71, -17.04, 65.23)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.71, 67.42, 104.64°)
OKLab	oklab(90.54% -0.0519 0.1492)
OKLCH	oklch(90.54% 0.158 109.2)
XYZ	xyz(64.1576, 75.6789, 21.8154)
Luminance	0.7568 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8E85E #5E5EE8

analogous

#E8A35E #E8E85E #A3E85E

triadic

#E8E85E #5EE8E8 #E85EE8

tetradic

#E8E85E #5EE8A3 #5E5EE8 #E85EA3

square

#E8E85E #5EE8A3 #5E5EE8 #E85EA3

split-complementary

#E8E85E #5EA3E8 #A35EE8

monochromatic

#B2B219 #E0E028 #E8E85E #F0F094 #F7F7C9

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.30

#E8E85E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.14

#E8E85E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8E85E

16.14:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8E85E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8E85E	1.00	1.30	16.14	16.14
#FFFFFF	1.30	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.14	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.14	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F9DF4E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FBE466

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7DACB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E2E2E2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8e85e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 232, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.5% 0.158 109.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2ef91',
    500: '#e8e85e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8e85e;
$custom-light: #f2ef91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8e85e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 75,
    "l": 63.922
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90541,
    "c": 0.158,
    "h": 109.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.75677
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8E85E

secondary

#3838B3

accent

#0ED70E

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8E85E

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

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