#E8E960#E8E960

#E8E960 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.763; OKLCH L 90.8% C 0.157 H 109.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.26:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E8E960
RGB	rgb(232, 233, 96)
HSL	hsl(60, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(60, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0.4%, 0%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.99, -17.40, 64.69)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.99, 66.99, 105.05°)
OKLab	oklab(90.77% -0.0527 0.1484)
OKLCH	oklch(90.77% 0.157 109.6)
XYZ	xyz(64.5308, 76.2799, 22.3882)
Luminance	0.7628 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

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Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E8E960 #6160E9

analogous

#E9A660 #E8E960 #A4E960

triadic

#E8E960 #60E8E9 #E960E8

tetradic

#E8E960 #60E9A6 #6160E9 #E960A4

square

#E8E960 #60E9A6 #6160E9 #E960A4

split-complementary

#E8E960 #60A4E9 #A660E9

monochromatic

#B4B519 #E0E22A #E8E960 #F0F096 #F8F8CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.29

#E8E960 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.26

#E8E960 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E8E960

16.26:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E8E960	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E8E960	1.00	1.29	16.26	16.26
#FFFFFF	1.29	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.26	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.26	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FAE050

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FCE468

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F7DCCC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E2E2E2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e8e960;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(232, 233, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.8% 0.157 109.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f2ef92',
    500: '#e8e960',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e8e960;
$custom-light: #f2ef92;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e8e960",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 232,
    "g": 233,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60.438,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90769,
    "c": 0.15744,
    "h": 109.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.76278
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E8E960

secondary

#3938B5

accent

#0ED80F

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E8E960

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

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