#ECD250#ECD250

#ECD250 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.645; OKLCH L 86.2% C 0.149 H 97.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 13.90:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECD250
RGB	rgb(236, 210, 80)
HSL	hsl(50, 80%, 62%)
HSV	hsv(50, 66%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 11%, 66.1%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(84.23, -5.29, 65.27)
CIE-LCH	lch(84.23, 65.48, 94.63°)
OKLab	oklab(86.23% -0.0202 0.1472)
OKLCH	oklch(86.23% 0.149 97.8)
XYZ	xyz(59.0893, 64.5081, 16.9267)
Luminance	0.6451 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECD250 #506AEC

analogous

#EC8450 #ECD250 #B8EC50

triadic

#ECD250 #50ECD2 #D250EC

tetradic

#ECD250 #50EC84 #506AEC #EC50B8

square

#ECD250 #50EC84 #506AEC #EC50B8

split-complementary

#ECD250 #50B8EC #8450EC

monochromatic

#AF9513 #E6C419 #ECD250 #F2E087 #F8EEBE

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.51

#ECD250 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

13.90

#ECD250 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECD250

13.90:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECD250	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECD250	1.00	1.51	13.90	13.90
#FFFFFF	1.51	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	13.90	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	13.90	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E6CD3F

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EDD657

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FEC3B7

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D2D2D2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecd250;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 210, 80);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(86.2% 0.149 97.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6df87',
    500: '#ecd250',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecd250;
$custom-light: #f6df87;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecd250",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 210,
    "b": 80
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50,
    "s": 80.412,
    "l": 61.961
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.86228,
    "c": 0.14858,
    "h": 97.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.64505
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECD250

secondary

#3146AF

accent

#2CDD09

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#18150C

muted

#86847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECD250

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

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