#EED56A#EED56A

#EED56A is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.668; OKLCH L 87.3% C 0.130 H 96.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 14.36:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#EED56A
RGB	rgb(238, 213, 106)
HSL	hsl(49, 80%, 67%)
HSV	hsv(49, 55%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10.5%, 55.5%, 6.7%)
CIE-LAB	lab(85.41, -4.27, 55.25)
CIE-LCH	lch(85.41, 55.41, 94.42°)
OKLab	oklab(87.28% -0.0145 0.1292)
OKLCH	oklch(87.28% 0.13 96.4)
XYZ	xyz(61.6580, 66.8089, 23.2805)
Luminance	0.6681 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#EED56A #6A83EE

analogous

#EE936A #EED56A #C5EE6A

triadic

#EED56A #6AEED5 #D56AEE

tetradic

#EED56A #6AEE93 #6A83EE #EE6AC5

square

#EED56A #6AEE93 #6A83EE #EE6AC5

split-complementary

#EED56A #6AC5EE #936AEE

monochromatic

#C7A617 #E8C633 #EED56A #F4E4A1 #FBF4D8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.46

#EED56A on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

14.36

#EED56A on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #EED56A

14.36:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##EED56A	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##EED56A	1.00	1.46	14.36	14.36
#FFFFFF	1.46	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	14.36	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	14.36	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#E7D160

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#EED96F

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFC7BD

Achromatopsia (no color)

#D5D5D5

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #eed56a;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(238, 213, 106);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(87.3% 0.130 96.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6e197',
    500: '#eed56a',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #eed56a;
$custom-light: #f6e197;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#eed56a",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 238,
    "g": 213,
    "b": 106
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 48.636,
    "s": 79.518,
    "l": 67.451
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.87278,
    "c": 0.12999,
    "h": 96.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.66806
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#EED56A

secondary

#3852C4

accent

#31DC0A

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF5

border

#D7D5CF

text

#17150E

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #EED56A

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

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