#ECC250#ECC250

#ECC250 is a very light, vivid orange. Relative luminance 0.570; OKLCH L 83.0% C 0.138 H 88.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 12.40:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECC250
RGB	rgb(236, 194, 80)
HSL	hsl(44, 80%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(44, 66%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 17.8%, 66.1%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(80.18, 2.94, 61.01)
CIE-LCH	lch(80.18, 61.08, 87.25°)
OKLab	oklab(83.03% 0.0034 0.1382)
OKLCH	oklch(83.03% 0.138 88.6)
XYZ	xyz(55.3348, 56.9990, 15.6752)
Luminance	0.5700 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	orange

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECC250 #507AEC

analogous

#EC7450 #ECC250 #C8EC50

triadic

#ECC250 #50ECC2 #C250EC

tetradic

#ECC250 #50EC74 #507AEC #EC50C8

square

#ECC250 #50EC74 #507AEC #EC50C8

split-complementary

#ECC250 #50C8EC #7450EC

monochromatic

#AF8513 #E6AF19 #ECC250 #F2D587 #F8E8BE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.69

#ECC250 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

12.40

#ECC250 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECC250

12.40:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECC250	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECC250	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)

#D7C042

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E1CC55

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFB3AA

Achromatopsia (no color)

#C7C7C7

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecc250;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 194, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(83.0% 0.138 88.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6d486',
    500: '#ecc250',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecc250;
$custom-light: #f6d486;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecc250",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 194,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 43.846,
    "s": 80.412,
    "l": 61.961
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.83028,
    "c": 0.1382,
    "h": 88.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.56996
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECC250

secondary

#3153AF

accent

#42DD09

background

#FFFEFB

surface

#FFFBF2

border

#D7D4CC

text

#18140B

muted

#86837E

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECC250

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

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