#E9CD60#E9CD60

#E9CD60 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.618; OKLCH L 85.1% C 0.132 H 95.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.37:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9CD60
RGB	rgb(233, 205, 96)
HSL	hsl(48, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(48, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 12%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.82, -2.97, 56.76)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.82, 56.84, 93.00°)
OKLab	oklab(85.1% -0.0116 0.1314)
OKLCH	oklch(85.1% 0.132 95)
XYZ	xyz(57.5493, 61.8335, 19.9678)
Luminance	0.6183 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9CD60 #607CE9

analogous

#E98860 #E9CD60 #C1E960

triadic

#E9CD60 #60E9CD #CD60E9

tetradic

#E9CD60 #60E988 #607CE9 #E960C1

square

#E9CD60 #60E988 #607CE9 #E960C1

split-complementary

#E9CD60 #60C1E9 #8860E9

monochromatic

#B59619 #E2BC2A #E9CD60 #F0DE96 #F8EFCC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.57

#E9CD60 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.37

#E9CD60 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9CD60

13.37:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9CD60	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9CD60	1.00	1.57	13.37	13.37
#FFFFFF	1.57	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.37	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.37	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E0C955

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E7D265

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FABFB5

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CECECE

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9cd60;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 205, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(85.1% 0.132 95.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3dc91',
    500: '#e9cd60',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9cd60;
$custom-light: #f3dc91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9cd60",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 205,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 47.737,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.85097,
    "c": 0.13192,
    "h": 95
  },
  "luminance": 0.61831
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9CD60

secondary

#3851B5

accent

#37D80E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9CD60

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

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