#EDE85E#EDE85E

#EDE85E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.765; OKLCH L 91.0% C 0.157 H 107.2°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.31:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#EDE85E
RGB	rgb(237, 232, 94)
HSL	hsl(58, 80%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(58, 60%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 2.1%, 60.3%, 7.1%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.10, -15.02, 65.77)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.10, 67.46, 102.86°)
OKLab	oklab(90.95% -0.0465 0.1503)
OKLCH	oklch(90.95% 0.157 107.2)
XYZ	xyz(65.8042, 76.5279, 21.8925)
Luminance	0.7653 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#EDE85E #5E63ED

analogous

#EDA05E #EDE85E #ABED5E

triadic

#EDE85E #5EEDE8 #E85EED

tetradic

#EDE85E #5EEDA0 #5E63ED #ED5EAB

square

#EDE85E #5EEDA0 #5E63ED #ED5EAB

split-complementary

#EDE85E #5EABED #A05EED

monochromatic

#BCB615 #E7E027 #EDE85E #F3F095 #F9F8CC

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.29

#EDE85E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.31

#EDE85E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #EDE85E

16.31:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##EDE85E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##EDE85E	1.00	1.29	16.31	16.31
#FFFFFF	1.29	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.31	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.31	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FAE04E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FDE566

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FDDACB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E3E3E3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #ede85e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(237, 232, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(91.0% 0.157 107.2);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6ef91',
    500: '#ede85e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #ede85e;
$custom-light: #f6ef91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#ede85e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 237,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 57.902,
    "s": 79.888,
    "l": 64.902
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90951,
    "c": 0.15728,
    "h": 107.2
  },
  "luminance": 0.76526
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#EDE85E

secondary

#3539BA

accent

#11DC09

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#18160D

muted

#86857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #EDE85E

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

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