#E9E962#E9E962

#E9E962 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.765; OKLCH L 90.9% C 0.156 H 109.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.30:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#E9E962
RGB	rgb(233, 233, 98)
HSL	hsl(60, 75%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(60, 58%, 91%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0%, 57.9%, 8.6%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.08, -16.86, 63.97)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.08, 66.16, 104.76°)
OKLab	oklab(90.87% -0.051 0.1471)
OKLCH	oklch(90.87% 0.156 109.1)
XYZ	xyz(64.9497, 76.4850, 22.8946)
Luminance	0.7648 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#E9E962 #6262E9

analogous

#E9A662 #E9E962 #A6E962

triadic

#E9E962 #62E9E9 #E962E9

tetradic

#E9E962 #62E9A6 #6262E9 #E962A6

square

#E9E962 #62E9A6 #6262E9 #E962A6

split-complementary

#E9E962 #62A6E9 #A662E9

monochromatic

#B7B71A #E1E12C #E9E962 #F1F198 #F8F8CD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.29

#E9E962 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.30

#E9E962 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #E9E962

16.30:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##E9E962	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##E9E962	1.00	1.29	16.30	16.30
#FFFFFF	1.29	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.30	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.30	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FAE053

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FCE56A

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#F8DCCC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E3E3E3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #e9e962;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(233, 233, 98);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.9% 0.156 109.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f3ef94',
    500: '#e9e962',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #e9e962;
$custom-light: #f3ef94;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#e9e962",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 233,
    "g": 233,
    "b": 98
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 60,
    "s": 75.419,
    "l": 64.902
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90869,
    "c": 0.15566,
    "h": 109.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.76483
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#E9E962

secondary

#3838B7

accent

#0ED80E

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #E9E962

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

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