#EDE85D#EDE85D

#EDE85D is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.765; OKLCH L 90.9% C 0.158 H 107.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.30:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#EDE85D
RGB	rgb(237, 232, 93)
HSL	hsl(58, 80%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(58, 61%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 2.1%, 60.8%, 7.1%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.10, -15.08, 66.18)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.10, 67.87, 102.84°)
OKLab	oklab(90.94% -0.0468 0.151)
OKLCH	oklch(90.94% 0.158 107.2)
XYZ	xyz(65.7596, 76.5101, 21.6578)
Luminance	0.7651 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#EDE85D #5D62ED

analogous

#EDA05D #EDE85D #AAED5D

triadic

#EDE85D #5DEDE8 #E85DED

tetradic

#EDE85D #5DEDA0 #5D62ED #ED5DAA

square

#EDE85D #5DEDA0 #5D62ED #ED5DAA

split-complementary

#EDE85D #5DAAED #A05DED

monochromatic

#BBB515 #E7E026 #EDE85D #F3F094 #F9F8CB

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.29

#EDE85D on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.30

#EDE85D on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #EDE85D

16.30:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##EDE85D	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##EDE85D	1.00	1.29	16.30	16.30
#FFFFFF	1.29	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.30	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.30	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FAE04C

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FDE565

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FDDACB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E3E3E3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ede85d;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(237, 232, 93);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.9% 0.158 107.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6ef91',
    500: '#ede85d',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ede85d;
$custom-light: #f6ef91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ede85d",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 237,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 93
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 57.917,
    "s": 80,
    "l": 64.706
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90941,
    "c": 0.15806,
    "h": 107.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.76508
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#EDE85D

secondary

#3439BA

accent

#11DC09

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#18160D

muted

#86857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #EDE85D

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

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