#E9E85E#E9E85E

#E9E85E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.758; OKLCH L 90.6% C 0.158 H 108.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.17:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9E85E
RGB	rgb(233, 232, 94)
HSL	hsl(60, 76%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(60, 60%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.4%, 59.7%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.79, -16.64, 65.34)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.79, 67.42, 104.29°)
OKLab	oklab(90.62% -0.0508 0.1494)
OKLCH	oklch(90.62% 0.158 108.8)
XYZ	xyz(64.4832, 75.8468, 21.8306)
Luminance	0.7584 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9E85E #5E5FE9

analogous

#E9A35E #E9E85E #A5E95E

triadic

#E9E85E #5EE9E8 #E85EE9

tetradic

#E9E85E #5EE9A3 #5E5FE9 #E95EA5

square

#E9E85E #5EE9A3 #5E5FE9 #E95EA5

split-complementary

#E9E85E #5EA5E9 #A35EE9

monochromatic

#B4B319 #E2E028 #E9E85E #F0F094 #F8F7CA

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.30

#E9E85E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.17

#E9E85E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9E85E

16.17:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9E85E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9E85E	1.00	1.30	16.17	16.17
#FFFFFF	1.30	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.17	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.17	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F9DF4E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FBE466

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8DACB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E2E2E2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9e85e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 232, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.6% 0.158 108.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3ef91',
    500: '#e9e85e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9e85e;
$custom-light: #f3ef91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9e85e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.568,
    "s": 75.956,
    "l": 64.118
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90622,
    "c": 0.15784,
    "h": 108.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.75845
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9E85E

secondary

#3738B4

accent

#0FD80D

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9E85E

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

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