#E9D560#E9D560

#E9D560 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.658; OKLCH L 86.7% C 0.138 H 99.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.15:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9D560
RGB	rgb(233, 213, 96)
HSL	hsl(51, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(51, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.6%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.87, -7.05, 59.06)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.87, 59.48, 96.80°)
OKLab	oklab(86.72% -0.0233 0.1363)
OKLCH	oklch(86.72% 0.138 99.7)
XYZ	xyz(59.5121, 65.7591, 20.6221)
Luminance	0.6576 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9D560 #6074E9

analogous

#E99160 #E9D560 #B9E960

triadic

#E9D560 #60E9D5 #D560E9

tetradic

#E9D560 #60E991 #6074E9 #E960B9

square

#E9D560 #60E991 #6074E9 #E960B9

split-complementary

#E9D560 #60B9E9 #9160E9

monochromatic

#B59F19 #E2C72A #E9D560 #F0E396 #F8F1CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.48

#E9D560 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.15

#E9D560 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9D560

14.15:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9D560	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9D560	1.00	1.48	14.15	14.15
#FFFFFF	1.48	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.15	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.15	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7D054

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EDD766

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F9C7BB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D4D4D4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9d560;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 213, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.7% 0.138 99.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3e191',
    500: '#e9d560',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9d560;
$custom-light: #f3e191;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9d560",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.241,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.8672,
    "c": 0.13831,
    "h": 99.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.65757
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9D560

secondary

#384AB5

accent

#2BD80E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9D560

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

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