#ECD869#ECD869

#ECD869 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.680; OKLCH L 87.7% C 0.133 H 99.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.59:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECD869
RGB	rgb(236, 216, 105)
HSL	hsl(51, 78%, 67%)
HSV	hsv(51, 56%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.5%, 55.5%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.99, -6.68, 56.34)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.99, 56.73, 96.76°)
OKLab	oklab(87.69% -0.0214 0.1315)
OKLCH	oklch(87.69% 0.133 99.2)
XYZ	xyz(61.6999, 67.9670, 23.2308)
Luminance	0.6796 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECD869 #697DEC

analogous

#EC9769 #ECD869 #BEEC69

triadic

#ECD869 #69ECD8 #D869EC

tetradic

#ECD869 #69EC97 #697DEC #EC69BE

square

#ECD869 #69EC97 #697DEC #EC69BE

split-complementary

#ECD869 #69BEEC #9769EC

monochromatic

#C2A819 #E5CA33 #ECD869 #F3E69F #FAF4D6

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.44

#ECD869 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.59

#ECD869 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECD869

14.59:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECD869	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECD869	1.00	1.44	14.59	14.59
#FFFFFF	1.44	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.59	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.59	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EAD35E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EFDA6E

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FCCBBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D7D7D7

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecd869;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 216, 105);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.7% 0.133 99.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f5e397',
    500: '#ecd869',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecd869;
$custom-light: #f5e397;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecd869",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 105
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50.84,
    "s": 77.515,
    "l": 66.863
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87694,
    "c": 0.1332,
    "h": 99.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.67965
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECD869

secondary

#394EC0

accent

#2BDA0C

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF5

border

#D7D5CF

text

#17150E

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECD869

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

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