#ECD960#ECD960

#ECD960 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.683; OKLCH L 87.8% C 0.142 H 100.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.66:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECD960
RGB	rgb(236, 217, 96)
HSL	hsl(52, 79%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(52, 59%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 8.1%, 59.3%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(86.16, -7.83, 60.57)
CIE-LCH	lch(86.16, 61.07, 97.37°)
OKLab	oklab(87.8% -0.0257 0.1395)
OKLCH	oklch(87.8% 0.142 100.4)
XYZ	xyz(61.5186, 68.3056, 21.0079)
Luminance	0.6830 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECD960 #6073EC

analogous

#EC9360 #ECD960 #B9EC60

triadic

#ECD960 #60ECD9 #D960EC

tetradic

#ECD960 #60EC93 #6073EC #EC60B9

square

#ECD960 #60EC93 #6073EC #EC60B9

split-complementary

#ECD960 #60B9EC #9360EC

monochromatic

#BBA516 #E5CC29 #ECD960 #F3E697 #F9F3CD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.43

#ECD960 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.66

#ECD960 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECD960

14.66:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECD960	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECD960	1.00	1.43	14.66	14.66
#FFFFFF	1.43	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.66	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.66	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EBD353

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F1DB66

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FDCBBF

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D7D7D7

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecd960;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 217, 96);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.8% 0.142 100.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f5e491',
    500: '#ecd960',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecd960;
$custom-light: #f5e491;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecd960",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 217,
    "b": 96
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 51.857,
    "s": 78.652,
    "l": 65.098
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.878,
    "c": 0.14184,
    "h": 100.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.68303
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECD960

secondary

#3648BA

accent

#27DB0B

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF4

border

#D7D5CE

text

#17150D

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECD960

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

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