#E9E75E#E9E75E

#E9E75E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.753; OKLCH L 90.4% C 0.157 H 108.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.06:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9E75E
RGB	rgb(233, 231, 94)
HSL	hsl(59, 76%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(59, 60%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.9%, 59.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.53, -16.15, 65.05)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.53, 67.03, 103.94°)
OKLab	oklab(90.41% -0.0494 0.1488)
OKLCH	oklch(90.41% 0.157 108.4)
XYZ	xyz(64.2026, 75.2855, 21.7371)
Luminance	0.7528 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9E75E #5E60E9

analogous

#E9A25E #E9E75E #A6E95E

triadic

#E9E75E #5EE9E7 #E75EE9

tetradic

#E9E75E #5EE9A2 #5E60E9 #E95EA6

square

#E9E75E #5EE9A2 #5E60E9 #E95EA6

split-complementary

#E9E75E #5EA6E9 #A25EE9

monochromatic

#B4B219 #E2DF28 #E9E75E #F0EF94 #F8F7CA

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.31

#E9E75E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.06

#E9E75E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9E75E

16.06:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9E75E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9E75E	1.00	1.31	16.06	16.06
#FFFFFF	1.31	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.06	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.06	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F8DE4E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FBE366

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8D9CA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E1E1E1

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9e75e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 231, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.4% 0.157 108.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3ee91',
    500: '#e9e75e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9e75e;
$custom-light: #f3ee91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9e75e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 231,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.137,
    "s": 75.956,
    "l": 64.118
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90414,
    "c": 0.15683,
    "h": 108.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.75284
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9E75E

secondary

#3739B4

accent

#10D80D

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9E75E

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

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