#E9CD50#E9CD50

#E9CD50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.616; OKLCH L 84.9% C 0.145 H 96.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.31:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9CD50
RGB	rgb(233, 205, 80)
HSL	hsl(49, 78%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(49, 66%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 12%, 65.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.68, -3.99, 63.57)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.68, 63.69, 93.59°)
OKLab	oklab(84.94% -0.0164 0.1437)
OKLCH	oklch(84.94% 0.145 96.5)
XYZ	xyz(56.8862, 61.5683, 16.4754)
Luminance	0.6157 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9CD50 #506CE9

analogous

#E98150 #E9CD50 #B8E950

triadic

#E9CD50 #50E9CD #CD50E9

tetradic

#E9CD50 #50E981 #506CE9 #E950B8

square

#E9CD50 #50E981 #506CE9 #E950B8

split-complementary

#E9CD50 #50B8E9 #8150E9

monochromatic

#A98E15 #E0BC1C #E9CD50 #F0DD86 #F7ECBD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.58

#E9CD50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.31

#E9CD50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9CD50

13.31:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9CD50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9CD50	1.00	1.58	13.31	13.31
#FFFFFF	1.58	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.31	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.31	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E1C940

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E8D257

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FBBEB3

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9cd50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 205, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.9% 0.145 96.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f4db87',
    500: '#e9cd50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9cd50;
$custom-light: #f4db87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9cd50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.02,
    "s": 77.665,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8494,
    "c": 0.14461,
    "h": 96.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.61565
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9CD50

secondary

#3248AB

accent

#31DA0C

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9CD50

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

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