#F9E06B#F9E06B

#F9E06B is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.745; OKLCH L 90.5% C 0.139 H 97.4°. Best body text is #000000 at 15.90:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#F9E06B
RGB	rgb(249, 224, 107)
HSL	hsl(49, 92%, 70%)
HSV	hsv(49, 57%, 98%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 10%, 57%, 2.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(89.17, -5.28, 59.36)
CIE-LCH	lch(89.17, 59.60, 95.08°)
OKLab	oklab(90.48% -0.0179 0.1379)
OKLCH	oklch(90.48% 0.139 97.4)
XYZ	xyz(68.3791, 74.5156, 24.6882)
Luminance	0.7451 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#F9E06B #6B84F9

analogous

#F9996B #F9E06B #CBF96B

triadic

#F9E06B #6BF9E0 #E06BF9

tetradic

#F9E06B #6BF999 #6B84F9 #F96BCB

square

#F9E06B #6BF999 #6B84F9 #F96BCB

split-complementary

#F9E06B #6BCBF9 #996BF9

monochromatic

#E0BB09 #F7D430 #F9E06B #FBECA6 #FEF9E1

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.32

#F9E06B on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

15.90

#F9E06B on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #F9E06B

15.90:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##F9E06B	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##F9E06B	1.00	1.32	15.90	15.90
#FFFFFF	1.32	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	15.90	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	15.90	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#F3DB5F

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FAE470

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFD2C6

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E0E0E0

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #f9e06b;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(249, 224, 107);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.5% 0.139 97.4);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#fee999',
    500: '#f9e06b',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #f9e06b;
$custom-light: #fee999;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#f9e06b",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 249,
    "g": 224,
    "b": 107
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 49.437,
    "s": 92.208,
    "l": 69.804
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.90482,
    "c": 0.1391,
    "h": 97.4
  },
  "luminance": 0.74513
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#F9E06B

secondary

#3551D3

accent

#28E600

background

#FFFEFC

surface

#FFFCF5

border

#D7D5CF

text

#18160E

muted

#86847F

Preview Lab

Preview with #F9E06B

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

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