#E9DB50#E9DB50

#E9DB50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.686; OKLCH L 87.8% C 0.156 H 103.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.71:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9DB50
RGB	rgb(233, 219, 80)
HSL	hsl(55, 78%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(55, 66%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 6%, 65.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(86.29, -11.07, 67.33)
CIE-LCH	lch(86.29, 68.23, 99.34°)
OKLab	oklab(87.8% -0.0365 0.1516)
OKLCH	oklch(87.8% 0.156 103.5)
XYZ	xyz(60.3862, 68.5682, 17.6420)
Luminance	0.6857 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9DB50 #505EE9

analogous

#E98F50 #E9DB50 #ABE950

triadic

#E9DB50 #50E9DB #DB50E9

tetradic

#E9DB50 #50E98F #505EE9 #E950AB

square

#E9DB50 #50E98F #505EE9 #E950AB

split-complementary

#E9DB50 #50ABE9 #8F50E9

monochromatic

#A99C15 #E0CE1C #E9DB50 #F0E686 #F7F1BD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.43

#E9DB50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.71

#E9DB50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9DB50

14.71:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9DB50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9DB50	1.00	1.43	14.71	14.71
#FFFFFF	1.43	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.71	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.71	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EED43D

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F2DB58

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FACDBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D8D8D8

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9db50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 219, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.8% 0.156 103.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3e588',
    500: '#e9db50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9db50;
$custom-light: #f3e588;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9db50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 219,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 54.51,
    "s": 77.665,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87801,
    "c": 0.15597,
    "h": 103.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.68566
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9DB50

secondary

#323DAB

accent

#1EDA0C

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9DB50

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

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