#ECD86A#ECD86A

#ECD86A is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.680; OKLCH L 87.7% C 0.132 H 99.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.60:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECD86A
RGB	rgb(236, 216, 106)
HSL	hsl(51, 77%, 67%)
HSV	hsv(51, 55%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.5%, 55.1%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(86.00, -6.60, 55.89)
CIE-LCH	lch(86.00, 56.28, 96.74°)
OKLab	oklab(87.71% -0.0211 0.1306)
OKLCH	oklch(87.71% 0.132 99.2)
XYZ	xyz(61.7516, 67.9877, 23.5031)
Luminance	0.6798 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECD86A #6A7EEC

analogous

#EC976A #ECD86A #BFEC6A

triadic

#ECD86A #6AECD8 #D86AEC

tetradic

#ECD86A #6AEC97 #6A7EEC #EC6ABF

square

#ECD86A #6AEC97 #6A7EEC #EC6ABF

split-complementary

#ECD86A #6ABFEC #976AEC

monochromatic

#C3A919 #E5CA34 #ECD86A #F3E6A0 #FAF4D7

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.44

#ECD86A on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.60

#ECD86A on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECD86A

14.60:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECD86A	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECD86A	1.00	1.44	14.60	14.60
#FFFFFF	1.44	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.60	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.60	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EAD35F

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EFDA6F

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FCCBBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D7D7D7

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecd86a;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 216, 106);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.7% 0.132 99.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f5e398',
    500: '#ecd86a',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecd86a;
$custom-light: #f5e398;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecd86a",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 216,
    "b": 106
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 50.769,
    "s": 77.381,
    "l": 67.059
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87706,
    "c": 0.1323,
    "h": 99.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.67985
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECD86A

secondary

#394EC1

accent

#2CDA0C

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF5

border

#D7D5CF

text

#17150E

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECD86A

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

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