#ECC24F#ECC24F

#ECC24F is a very light, vivid orange. Relative luminance 0.570; OKLCH L 83.0% C 0.139 H 88.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.40:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECC24F
RGB	rgb(236, 194, 79)
HSL	hsl(44, 81%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(44, 67%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 17.8%, 66.5%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(80.17, 2.88, 61.42)
CIE-LCH	lch(80.17, 61.49, 87.32°)
OKLab	oklab(83.02% 0.0031 0.1389)
OKLCH	oklch(83.02% 0.139 88.7)
XYZ	xyz(55.2981, 56.9843, 15.4821)
Luminance	0.5698 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	orange

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECC24F #4F79EC

analogous

#EC744F #ECC24F #C8EC4F

triadic

#ECC24F #4FECC2 #C24FEC

tetradic

#ECC24F #4FEC74 #4F79EC #EC4FC8

square

#ECC24F #4FEC74 #4F79EC #EC4FC8

split-complementary

#ECC24F #4FC8EC #744FEC

monochromatic

#AE8413 #E5AE19 #ECC24F #F2D586 #F8E8BD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.69

#ECC24F on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.40

#ECC24F on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECC24F

12.40:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECC24F	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECC24F	1.00	1.69	12.40	12.40
#FFFFFF	1.69	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	12.40	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	12.40	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#D7C041

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E1CC54

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFB2AA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#C7C7C7

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecc24f;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 194, 79);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(83.0% 0.139 88.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6d485',
    500: '#ecc24f',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecc24f;
$custom-light: #f6d485;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecc24f",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 194,
    "b": 79
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 43.949,
    "s": 80.513,
    "l": 61.765
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83018,
    "c": 0.13892,
    "h": 88.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.56981
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECC24F

secondary

#3152AE

accent

#41DD09

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFBF2

border

#D7D4CC

text

#18140B

muted

#86837E

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECC24F

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

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