#ECEA57#ECEA57

#ECEA57 is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.774; OKLCH L 91.2% C 0.165 H 108.5°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.47:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#ECEA57
RGB	rgb(236, 234, 87)
HSL	hsl(59, 80%, 63%)
HSV	hsv(59, 63%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 0.8%, 63.1%, 7.5%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.49, -16.84, 69.00)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.49, 71.03, 103.71°)
OKLab	oklab(91.22% -0.0523 0.1561)
OKLCH	oklch(91.22% 0.165 108.5)
XYZ	xyz(65.7374, 77.3686, 20.4858)
Luminance	0.7737 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#ECEA57 #5759EC

analogous

#ECA057 #ECEA57 #A3EC57

triadic

#ECEA57 #57ECEA #EA57EC

tetradic

#ECEA57 #57ECA0 #5759EC #EC57A3

square

#ECEA57 #57ECA0 #5759EC #EC57A3

split-complementary

#ECEA57 #57A3EC #A057EC

monochromatic

#B4B214 #E6E320 #ECEA57 #F2F18E #F8F8C5

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.27

#ECEA57 on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.47

#ECEA57 on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #ECEA57

16.47:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##ECEA57	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##ECEA57	1.00	1.27	16.47	16.47
#FFFFFF	1.27	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.47	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.47	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FCE144

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FEE660

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FCDCCC

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E4E4E4

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ecea57;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(236, 234, 87);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(91.2% 0.165 108.5);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f5f08d',
    500: '#ecea57',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ecea57;
$custom-light: #f5f08d;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ecea57",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 236,
    "g": 234,
    "b": 87
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 59.195,
    "s": 79.679,
    "l": 63.333
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.91222,
    "c": 0.16466,
    "h": 108.5
  },
  "luminance": 0.77367
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#ECEA57

secondary

#3335B4

accent

#0CDC0A

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#18160D

muted

#86857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #ECEA57

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

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