#E9CD49#E9CD49

#E9CD49 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.615; OKLCH L 84.9% C 0.150 H 97.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.29:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9CD49
RGB	rgb(233, 205, 73)
HSL	hsl(50, 78%, 60%)
HSV	hsv(50, 69%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 12%, 68.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.63, -4.37, 66.34)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.63, 66.48, 93.77°)
OKLab	oklab(84.88% -0.0182 0.1484)
OKLCH	oklch(84.88% 0.15 97)
XYZ	xyz(56.6409, 61.4702, 15.1835)
Luminance	0.6147 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9CD49 #4965E9

analogous

#E97D49 #E9CD49 #B5E949

triadic

#E9CD49 #49E9CD #CD49E9

tetradic

#E9CD49 #49E97D #4965E9 #E949B5

square

#E9CD49 #49E97D #4965E9 #E949B5

split-complementary

#E9CD49 #49B5E9 #7D49E9

monochromatic

#A48B14 #DAB91A #E9CD49 #F0DC80 #F6EBB6

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#E9CD49 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.29

#E9CD49 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9CD49

13.29:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9CD49	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9CD49	1.00	1.58	13.29	13.29
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.29	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.29	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1C837

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E8D250

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FBBEB2

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9cd49;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 205, 73);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.9% 0.150 97.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f4db83',
    500: '#e9cd49',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9cd49;
$custom-light: #f4db83;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9cd49",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 73
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.5,
    "s": 78.431,
    "l": 60
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84882,
    "c": 0.14952,
    "h": 97
  },
  "luminance": 0.61467
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9CD49

secondary

#3045A6

accent

#55F533

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFBF2

border

#D7D4CC

text

#18150B

muted

#86847E

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9CD49

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

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