#ECE85D#ECE85D

#ECE85D is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.763; OKLCH L 90.9% C 0.158 H 107.6°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.27:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECE85D
RGB	rgb(236, 232, 93)
HSL	hsl(58, 79%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(58, 61%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 1.7%, 60.6%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.02, -15.49, 66.07)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.02, 67.86, 103.19°)
OKLab	oklab(90.86% -0.0478 0.1508)
OKLCH	oklch(90.86% 0.158 107.6)
XYZ	xyz(65.4266, 76.3384, 21.6421)
Luminance	0.7634 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECE85D #5D61EC

analogous

#ECA15D #ECE85D #A8EC5D

triadic

#ECE85D #5DECE8 #E85DEC

tetradic

#ECE85D #5DECA1 #5D61EC #EC5DA8

square

#ECE85D #5DECA1 #5D61EC #EC5DA8

split-complementary

#ECE85D #5DA8EC #A15DEC

monochromatic

#B9B416 #E6E026 #ECE85D #F2F094 #F9F8CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.29

#ECE85D on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.27

#ECE85D on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECE85D

16.27:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECE85D	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECE85D	1.00	1.29	16.27	16.27
#FFFFFF	1.29	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.27	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.27	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FADF4C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FCE565

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FCDACB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E2E2E2

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ece85d;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 232, 93);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.9% 0.158 107.6);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f5ef91',
    500: '#ece85d',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ece85d;
$custom-light: #f5ef91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ece85d",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 93
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 58.322,
    "s": 79.006,
    "l": 64.51
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90859,
    "c": 0.15819,
    "h": 107.6
  },
  "luminance": 0.76336
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECE85D

secondary

#3539B8

accent

#10DB0A

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#17160D

muted

#85857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECE85D

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

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