#EEE85E#EEE85E

#EEE85E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.767; OKLCH L 91.0% C 0.157 H 106.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.34:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#EEE85E
RGB	rgb(238, 232, 94)
HSL	hsl(58, 81%, 65%)
HSV	hsv(58, 61%, 93%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 2.5%, 60.5%, 6.7%)
CIE-LAB	lab(90.18, -14.61, 65.88)
CIE-LCH	lch(90.18, 67.48, 102.51°)
OKLab	oklab(91.03% -0.0454 0.1505)
OKLCH	oklch(91.03% 0.157 106.8)
XYZ	xyz(66.1391, 76.7006, 21.9082)
Luminance	0.7670 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#EEE85E #5E64EE

analogous

#EEA05E #EEE85E #ACEE5E

triadic

#EEE85E #5EEEE8 #E85EEE

tetradic

#EEE85E #5EEEA0 #5E64EE #EE5EAC

square

#EEE85E #5EEEA0 #5E64EE #EE5EAC

split-complementary

#EEE85E #5EACEE #A05EEE

monochromatic

#BEB714 #E8E027 #EEE85E #F4F095 #FAF8CD

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.29

#EEE85E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.34

#EEE85E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #EEE85E

16.34:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##EEE85E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##EEE85E	1.00	1.29	16.34	16.34
#FFFFFF	1.29	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.34	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.34	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FAE04E

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FDE666

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FEDACB

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E3E3E3

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #eee85e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(238, 232, 94);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(91.0% 0.157 106.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#f7ef91',
    500: '#eee85e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #eee85e;
$custom-light: #f7ef91;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#eee85e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 238,
    "g": 232,
    "b": 94
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 57.5,
    "s": 80.899,
    "l": 65.098
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.91034,
    "c": 0.15716,
    "h": 106.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.76699
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#EEE85E

secondary

#343ABC

accent

#11DD08

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF4

border

#D7D6CE

text

#18160D

muted

#86857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #EEE85E

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

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