#E9D550#E9D550

#E9D550 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.655; OKLCH L 86.6% C 0.151 H 100.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.10:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9D550
RGB	rgb(233, 213, 80)
HSL	hsl(52, 78%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(52, 66%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.6%, 65.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.74, -8.06, 65.72)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.74, 66.21, 96.99°)
OKLab	oklab(86.57% -0.028 0.1482)
OKLCH	oklch(86.57% 0.151 100.7)
XYZ	xyz(58.8490, 65.4939, 17.1296)
Luminance	0.6549 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9D550 #5064E9

analogous

#E98950 #E9D550 #B1E950

triadic

#E9D550 #50E9D5 #D550E9

tetradic

#E9D550 #50E989 #5064E9 #E950B1

square

#E9D550 #50E989 #5064E9 #E950B1

split-complementary

#E9D550 #50B1E9 #8950E9

monochromatic

#A99615 #E0C61C #E9D550 #F0E286 #F7EFBD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.49

#E9D550 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.10

#E9D550 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9D550

14.10:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9D550	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9D550	1.00	1.49	14.10	14.10
#FFFFFF	1.49	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.10	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.10	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E8CF3F

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EED758

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FAC6BA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9d550;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 213, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.6% 0.151 100.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f4e187',
    500: '#e9d550',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9d550;
$custom-light: #f4e187;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9d550",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 52.157,
    "s": 77.665,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86568,
    "c": 0.15084,
    "h": 100.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.65491
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9D550

secondary

#3242AB

accent

#27DA0C

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9D550

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

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