#E9D660#E9D660

#E9D660 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.663; OKLCH L 86.9% C 0.139 H 100.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.25:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9D660
RGB	rgb(233, 214, 96)
HSL	hsl(52, 76%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(52, 59%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.2%, 58.8%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.13, -7.55, 59.35)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.13, 59.83, 97.25°)
OKLab	oklab(86.92% -0.0247 0.137)
OKLCH	oklch(86.92% 0.139 100.2)
XYZ	xyz(59.7644, 66.2637, 20.7062)
Luminance	0.6626 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9D660 #6073E9

analogous

#E99260 #E9D660 #B8E960

triadic

#E9D660 #60E9D6 #D660E9

tetradic

#E9D660 #60E992 #6073E9 #E960B8

square

#E9D660 #60E992 #6073E9 #E960B8

split-complementary

#E9D660 #60B8E9 #9260E9

monochromatic

#B5A019 #E2C82A #E9D660 #F0E496 #F8F2CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.47

#E9D660 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.25

#E9D660 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9D660

14.25:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9D660	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9D660	1.00	1.47	14.25	14.25
#FFFFFF	1.47	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.25	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.25	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E8D053

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EED866

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F9C8BC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D5D5D5

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9d660;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 214, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.9% 0.139 100.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3e291',
    500: '#e9d660',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9d660;
$custom-light: #f3e291;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9d660",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 214,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.679,
    "s": 75.691,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86924,
    "c": 0.13917,
    "h": 100.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.66261
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9D660

secondary

#3849B5

accent

#2AD80E

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9D660

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

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