#ECC24E#ECC24E

#ECC24E is a very light, vivid orange. Relative luminance 0.570; OKLCH L 83.0% C 0.140 H 88.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.39:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECC24E
RGB	rgb(236, 194, 78)
HSL	hsl(44, 81%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(44, 67%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 17.8%, 66.9%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(80.16, 2.82, 61.84)
CIE-LCH	lch(80.16, 61.90, 87.39°)
OKLab	oklab(83.01% 0.0028 0.1396)
OKLCH	oklch(83.01% 0.14 88.8)
XYZ	xyz(55.2620, 56.9698, 15.2918)
Luminance	0.5697 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	orange

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECC24E #4E78EC

analogous

#EC734E #ECC24E #C7EC4E

triadic

#ECC24E #4EECC2 #C24EEC

tetradic

#ECC24E #4EEC73 #4E78EC #EC4EC7

square

#ECC24E #4EEC73 #4E78EC #EC4EC7

split-complementary

#ECC24E #4EC7EC #734EEC

monochromatic

#AD8413 #E4AE19 #ECC24E #F2D585 #F8E8BD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.69

#ECC24E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.39

#ECC24E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECC24E

12.39:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECC24E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECC24E	1.00	1.69	12.39	12.39
#FFFFFF	1.69	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.39	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.39	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#D7C040

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E1CC53

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFB2AA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#C7C7C7

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecc24e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 194, 78);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(83.0% 0.140 88.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6d485',
    500: '#ecc24e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecc24e;
$custom-light: #f6d485;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecc24e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 194,
    "b": 78
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 44.051,
    "s": 80.612,
    "l": 61.569
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83009,
    "c": 0.13964,
    "h": 88.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.56966
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECC24E

secondary

#3052AE

accent

#41DD09

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFBF2

border

#D7D4CC

text

#18140B

muted

#86837E

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECC24E

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

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