#F9ED6E#F9ED6E

#F9ED6E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.818; OKLCH L 93.1% C 0.148 H 103.9°. Best body text is #000000 at 17.37:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#F9ED6E
RGB	rgb(249, 237, 110)
HSL	hsl(55, 92%, 70%)
HSV	hsv(55, 56%, 98%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 4.8%, 55.8%, 2.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(92.50, -11.54, 61.82)
CIE-LCH	lch(92.50, 62.89, 100.57°)
OKLab	oklab(93.14% -0.0355 0.1436)
OKLCH	oklch(93.14% 0.148 103.9)
XYZ	xyz(72.1679, 81.8364, 26.7433)
Luminance	0.8183 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

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Perceptual scales

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Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#F9ED6E #6E7AF9

analogous

#F9A76E #F9ED6E #BFF96E

triadic

#F9ED6E #6EF9ED #ED6EF9

tetradic

#F9ED6E #6EF9A7 #6E7AF9 #F96EBF

square

#F9ED6E #6EF9A7 #6E7AF9 #F96EBF

split-complementary

#F9ED6E #6EBFF9 #A76EF9

monochromatic

#E3D009 #F7E633 #F9ED6E #FBF4A9 #FEFBE2

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.21

#F9ED6E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

17.37

#F9ED6E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #F9ED6E

17.37:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##F9ED6E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##F9ED6E	1.00	1.21	17.37	17.37
#FFFFFF	1.21	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	17.37	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	17.37	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FFE661

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FFEC74

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFDFD1

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E9E9E9

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #f9ed6e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(249, 237, 110);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(93.1% 0.148 103.9);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#fef29b',
    500: '#f9ed6e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #f9ed6e;
$custom-light: #fef29b;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#f9ed6e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 249,
    "g": 237,
    "b": 110
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 54.82,
    "s": 92.053,
    "l": 70.392
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.93139,
    "c": 0.14789,
    "h": 103.9
  },
  "luminance": 0.81834
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#F9ED6E

secondary

#3745D4

accent

#14E600

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF5

border

#D7D6CF

text

#18160E

muted

#86857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #F9ED6E

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

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