#EEE36A#EEE36A

#EEE36A is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.742; OKLCH L 90.1% C 0.142 H 104.1°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.83:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#EEE36A
RGB	rgb(238, 227, 106)
HSL	hsl(55, 80%, 67%)
HSV	hsv(55, 55%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 4.6%, 55.5%, 6.7%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.00, -11.31, 59.37)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.00, 60.44, 100.78°)
OKLab	oklab(90.12% -0.0347 0.1381)
OKLCH	oklch(90.12% 0.142 104.1)
XYZ	xyz(65.3326, 74.1581, 24.5054)
Luminance	0.7416 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#EEE36A #6A75EE

analogous

#EEA16A #EEE36A #B7EE6A

triadic

#EEE36A #6AEEE3 #E36AEE

tetradic

#EEE36A #6AEEA1 #6A75EE #EE6AB7

square

#EEE36A #6AEEA1 #6A75EE #EE6AB7

split-complementary

#EEE36A #6AB7EE #A16AEE

monochromatic

#C7B817 #E8D933 #EEE36A #F4EDA1 #FBF8D8

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.33

#EEE36A on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.83

#EEE36A on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #EEE36A

15.83:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##EEE36A	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##EEE36A	1.00	1.33	15.83	15.83
#FFFFFF	1.33	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.83	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.83	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F5DC5E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#F8E270

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FED6C8

Achromatopsia (no color)

#DFDFDF

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #eee36a;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(238, 227, 106);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.1% 0.142 104.1);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f6eb98',
    500: '#eee36a',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #eee36a;
$custom-light: #f6eb98;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#eee36a",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 238,
    "g": 227,
    "b": 106
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 55,
    "s": 79.518,
    "l": 67.451
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90124,
    "c": 0.14236,
    "h": 104.1
  },
  "luminance": 0.74156
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#EEE36A

secondary

#3844C4

accent

#1BDC0A

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFDF5

border

#D7D5CF

text

#17160E

muted

#85847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #EEE36A

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

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