#E9CA60#E9CA60

#E9CA60 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.604; OKLCH L 84.5% C 0.130 H 93.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.08:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9CA60
RGB	rgb(233, 202, 96)
HSL	hsl(46, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(46, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 13.3%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.06, -1.43, 55.89)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.06, 55.91, 91.47°)
OKLab	oklab(84.49% -0.0071 0.1296)
OKLCH	oklch(84.49% 0.13 93.1)
XYZ	xyz(56.8386, 60.4121, 19.7309)
Luminance	0.6041 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9CA60 #607FE9

analogous

#E98560 #E9CA60 #C4E960

triadic

#E9CA60 #60E9CA #CA60E9

tetradic

#E9CA60 #60E985 #607FE9 #E960C4

square

#E9CA60 #60E985 #607FE9 #E960C4

split-complementary

#E9CA60 #60C4E9 #8560E9

monochromatic

#B59219 #E2B82A #E9CA60 #F0DC96 #F8EECC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.61

#E9CA60 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.08

#E9CA60 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9CA60

13.08:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9CA60	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9CA60	1.00	1.61	13.08	13.08
#FFFFFF	1.61	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.08	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.08	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DDC755

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E5D065

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FABCB2

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9ca60;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 202, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.5% 0.130 93.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3d990',
    500: '#e9ca60',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9ca60;
$custom-light: #f3d990;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9ca60",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 202,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 46.423,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84494,
    "c": 0.12975,
    "h": 93.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.60409
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9CA60

secondary

#3854B5

accent

#3BD80E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17140D

muted

#85837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9CA60

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

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