#E9DC50#E9DC50

#E9DC50 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.691; OKLCH L 88.0% C 0.157 H 104.0°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.82:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9DC50
RGB	rgb(233, 220, 80)
HSL	hsl(55, 78%, 61%)
HSV	hsv(55, 66%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 5.6%, 65.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(86.55, -11.57, 67.60)
CIE-LCH	lch(86.55, 68.58, 99.71°)
OKLab	oklab(88.01% -0.0379 0.1522)
OKLCH	oklch(88.01% 0.157 104)
XYZ	xyz(60.6478, 69.0915, 17.7292)
Luminance	0.6909 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9DC50 #505DE9

analogous

#E99050 #E9DC50 #AAE950

triadic

#E9DC50 #50E9DC #DC50E9

tetradic

#E9DC50 #50E990 #505DE9 #E950AA

square

#E9DC50 #50E990 #505DE9 #E950AA

split-complementary

#E9DC50 #50AAE9 #9050E9

monochromatic

#A99D15 #E0CF1C #E9DC50 #F0E786 #F7F2BD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.42

#E9DC50 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.82

#E9DC50 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9DC50

14.82:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9DC50	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9DC50	1.00	1.42	14.82	14.82
#FFFFFF	1.42	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.82	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.82	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EFD53D

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F3DC59

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FACEBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D9D9D9

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9dc50;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 220, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(88.0% 0.157 104.0);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3e688',
    500: '#e9dc50',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9dc50;
$custom-light: #f3e688;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9dc50",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 220,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 54.902,
    "s": 77.665,
    "l": 61.373
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.88008,
    "c": 0.15686,
    "h": 104
  },
  "luminance": 0.69089
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9DC50

secondary

#323DAB

accent

#1DDA0C

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150C

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9DC50

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

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