#ECC959#ECC959

#ECC959 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.603; OKLCH L 84.5% C 0.135 H 91.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.07:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECC959
RGB	rgb(236, 201, 89)
HSL	hsl(46, 79%, 64%)
HSV	hsv(46, 62%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 14.8%, 62.3%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(82.02, -0.14, 59.07)
CIE-LCH	lch(82.02, 59.07, 90.14°)
OKLab	oklab(84.5% -0.0044 0.1354)
OKLCH	oklch(84.5% 0.135 91.9)
XYZ	xyz(57.2846, 60.3305, 18.0769)
Luminance	0.6033 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECC959 #597CEC

analogous

#EC7F59 #ECC959 #C5EC59

triadic

#ECC959 #59ECC9 #C959EC

tetradic

#ECC959 #59EC7F #597CEC #EC59C5

square

#ECC959 #59EC7F #597CEC #EC59C5

split-complementary

#ECC959 #59C5EC #7F59EC

monochromatic

#B68F15 #E6B722 #ECC959 #F2DB90 #F9EDC7

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.61

#ECC959 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.07

#ECC959 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECC959

13.07:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECC959	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECC959	1.00	1.61	13.07	13.07
#FFFFFF	1.61	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.07	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.07	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#DDC64D

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#E6D05E

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FEBAB1

Achromatopsia (no color)

#CCCCCC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecc959;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 201, 89);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(84.5% 0.135 91.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6d98c',
    500: '#ecc959',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecc959;
$custom-light: #f6d98c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecc959",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 201,
    "b": 89
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 45.714,
    "s": 79.459,
    "l": 63.725
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.84503,
    "c": 0.13545,
    "h": 91.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.60327
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECC959

secondary

#3453B5

accent

#3CDC0A

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFBF4

border

#D7D4CE

text

#18140C

muted

#86837F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECC959

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

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