#F9F16E#F9F16E

#F9F16E is a very light, vivid yellow. Relative luminance 0.842; OKLCH L 94.0% C 0.152 H 105.7°. Best body text is #000000 at 17.84:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Color values

HEX	#F9F16E
RGB	rgb(249, 241, 110)
HSL	hsl(57, 92%, 70%)
HSV	hsv(57, 56%, 98%)
CMYK	cmyk(0%, 3.2%, 55.8%, 2.4%)
CIE-LAB	lab(93.53, -13.50, 62.98)
CIE-LCH	lch(93.53, 64.41, 102.10°)
OKLab	oklab(93.95% -0.0411 0.1461)
OKLCH	oklch(93.95% 0.152 105.7)
XYZ	xyz(73.3390, 84.1784, 27.1337)
Luminance	0.8418 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	warm
Family	yellow

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#F9F16E #6E76F9

analogous

#F9AC6E #F9F16E #BBF96E

triadic

#F9F16E #6EF9F1 #F16EF9

tetradic

#F9F16E #6EF9AC #6E76F9 #F96EBB

square

#F9F16E #6EF9AC #6E76F9 #F96EBB

split-complementary

#F9F16E #6EBBF9 #AC6EF9

monochromatic

#E3D709 #F7EB33 #F9F16E #FBF7A9 #FEFCE2

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.18

#F9F16E on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

17.84

#F9F16E on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #F9F16E

17.84:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##F9F16E	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##F9F16E	1.00	1.18	17.84	17.84
#FFFFFF	1.18	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	17.84	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	17.84	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#FFE960

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#FFEF75

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#FFE3D4

Achromatopsia (no color)

#ECECEC

Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #f9f16e;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(249, 241, 110);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(94.0% 0.152 105.7);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#fef59c',
    500: '#f9f16e',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #f9f16e;
$custom-light: #fef59c;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#f9f16e",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 249,
    "g": 241,
    "b": 110
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 56.547,
    "s": 92.053,
    "l": 70.392
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.93954,
    "c": 0.15174,
    "h": 105.7
  },
  "luminance": 0.84176
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#F9F16E

secondary

#3740D4

accent

#0DE600

background

#FFFFFC

surface

#FFFEF5

border

#D7D6CF

text

#18170E

muted

#86857F

Preview Lab

Preview with #F9F16E

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

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