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#ebff0e

a balanced, electric yellow · warm · closest name: Yellow

Token name suggestion: Signal Brass

RGB
235, 255, 14
HSL
65°, 100%, 53%
CMYK
8, 0, 95, 0
Luminance
0.8921

#ebff0e is a balanced electric yellow, 65° on the wheel and 29/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.84:1). As text it scores 1.11:1 on white — use #6F7900 instead. Nearest name is Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(65 100% 53%)rgb(235 255 14)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ebff0e is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ebff0e
Hue
65°
yellow
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
53%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8921
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
29/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.84:1
Closest name
Yellow
ΔE2000 4
Chroma
96.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.953
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 17.2
Web-safe
#FFFF00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue65° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness53%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ebff0e.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool29% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red20%
Green80%
Blue0%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#ebff0e
HEX (8-digit)#ebff0eff
RGBrgb(235, 255, 14)
RGBArgba(235, 255, 14, 1)
HSLhsl(65, 100%, 53%)
HSV / HSBhsv(65, 95%, 100%)
HWBhwb(65 5% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(8%, 0%, 95%, 0%)
LABlab(95.7 -29.6 91.7)
LCHlch(95.7 96.4 107.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.953 0.215 115.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(70.10, 89.22, 13.94)
Decimal15466254
Display P3color(display-p3 0.922 1.000 0.055)
Web-safe#FFFF00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ebff0e;
background-color: #ebff0e;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ebff0e;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ebff0e] bg-[#ebff0e]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ebff0e;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.922, green: 1.000, blue: 0.055)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.922, green: 1.000, blue: 0.055, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EBFF0E</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEBFF0E)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEBFF0E)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(14, 255, 235)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(235, 255, 14)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(235, 255, 14)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 235, 255, 14)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9216f, 1.0000f, 0.0549f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{235,255,14}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ebff0e 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ebff0e 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#758000, #ECEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ebff0e h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #FDFEF1;
  --brand-100: #FAFCE3;
  --brand-200: #F7FCC0;
  --brand-300: #F6FF8F;
  --brand-400: #F1FF57;
  --brand-500: #ebff0e;
  --brand-600: #E0F500;
  --brand-700: #BBCC00;
  --brand-800: #96A300;
  --brand-900: #6C7605;
  --brand-950: #444903;
  --brand: #ebff0e;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #E9EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #D6E900;
  --brand-pressed: #B5C500;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #232414;
    --brand-ink: #ECEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDFEF1',
        100: '#FAFCE3',
        200: '#F7FCC0',
        300: '#F6FF8F',
        400: '#F1FF57',
        500: '#ebff0e',
        600: '#E0F500',
        700: '#BBCC00',
        800: '#96A300',
        900: '#6C7605',
        950: '#444903',
        DEFAULT: '#ebff0e',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDFEF1,
  '100': #FAFCE3,
  '200': #F7FCC0,
  '300': #F6FF8F,
  '400': #F1FF57,
  '500': #ebff0e,
  '600': #E0F500,
  '700': #BBCC00,
  '800': #96A300,
  '900': #6C7605,
  '950': #444903,
);
$brand-base: #ebff0e;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDFEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FAFCE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#F7FCC0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F6FF8F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F1FF57", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#ebff0e", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#E0F500", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#BBCC00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#96A300", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6C7605", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#444903", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #ebff0e · 18.84:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.11:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.84:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ebff0e as text scores 1.11:1 on white and 18.84:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #758000 at 3.89:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#6F7900 · 4.76:1
AA on white−29% L
#6F7900
The quick fox
#535A00 · 7.42:1
AAA on white−35% L
#535A00
The quick fox
#ebff0e · 18.84:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ebff0e
The quick fox
#ebff0e · 18.84:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ebff0e

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #909D00 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#ebff0e on white: 1.11:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ebff0e on black: 18.84:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ebff0e as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ebff0e.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.11:1AaAa
Slate 501.07:1AaAa
Slate 1001.02:1AaAa
Slate 2001.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.33:1AaAa
Slate 4002.30:1AaAa
Slate 5004.27:1AaAa
Slate 6006.80:1AaAa
Slate 7009.29:1AaAa
Slate 80013.13:1AaAa
Slate 90016.02:1AaAa
Black18.84:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF100
deuteranopia · #FFF436
tritanopia · #FBEFD9

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #ebff0e is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FDFEF1
#FAFCE3
#F7FCC0
#F6FF8F
#F1FF57
#ebff0e
#E0F500
#BBCC00
#96A300
#6C7605
#444903
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #FDFEF1Darkest = 950 · #444903Text step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.054 115.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.086 115.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.129 115.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.168 115.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.198 115.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.215 115.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.215 115.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.202 115.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.181 115.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.151 115.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.118 115.4);
}

Colors that work with #ebff0e

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#FAFAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E9EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#949B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0E36FF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#758000
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FDFFE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#232414
Dark-mode background
Hover#D6E900
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B5C500
Two steps down
Disabled#CACDB0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EDFF22
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #ebff0e

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #758000
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #909D00

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

optimisticalertcheap-and-cheerfulvisible

The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

Almost never passes contrast against white. Treat it as a surface or a marker, not as text.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight47/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#220EFF
Analogous left#FF9A0E
Analogous right#72FF0E
Split-complement 1#0E72FF
Split-complement 2#9A0EFF
Triadic 1#0EEBFF
Triadic 2#FF0EEB
Tetradic#0EFF9A
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°65°

#ebff0e sits at 65°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.2%
Green100.0%
Blue5.5%
R · 0–255
235
0xeb
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
14
0x0e

CMYK percentages

Cyan7.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow94.5%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 102%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ebff0e text on a black background

contrast 18.84:1

Card sample

#ebff0e text on a white background

contrast 1.11:1

Card sample

#ebff0e on grey

1.02:1

#ebff0e on its own surface

1.06:1

#ebff0e on its dark surface

14.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ebff0e;
Background color
Panel with #ebff0e background
background-color: #ebff0e;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ebff0e;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(235, 255, 14, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(235, 255, 14, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ebff0e;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ebff0e, #4AFF0E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ebff0e, #0EFF0E);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ebff0e;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ebff0e;
caret-color: #ebff0e;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ebff0e;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FDFFE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ebff0e;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ebff0e 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ebff0e over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(235, 255, 14, 0.5)
rgb(235 255 14 / 50%)
#ebff0e80
hsl(65 100% 53% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ebff0e 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ebff0e1a#FDFFE7
20%#ebff0e33#FBFFCF
40%#ebff0e66#F7FF9F
60%#ebff0e99#F3FF6E
80%#ebff0ecc#EFFF3E

Gradients from #ebff0e

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0FF4B, #ebff0e 45%, #758000);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ebff0e, #28EE00);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ebff0e, #220EFF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FF6A 0%, #ebff0e 45%, #758000 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAFAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFA041 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #73FF2C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #758000 0%, transparent 65%), #ebff0e;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ebff0e

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#ebff0e in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
RetailLeisureEnergyWarning systems
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.84:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#ebff0e, answered

What color is #ebff0e?

#ebff0e is a balanced electric yellow, closest to Yellow (ΔE2000 4). It sits at 65° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 53% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #ebff0e?

rgb(235, 255, 14) — 235 red, 255 green and 14 blue out of 255, or 92.2% / 100% / 5.5% by channel.

What is #ebff0e in HSL and HSV?

hsl(65, 100%, 53%) and hsv(65, 95%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ebff0e a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8921 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 18.84:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ebff0e?

Black. It scores 18.84:1 against #ebff0e, versus 1.11:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ebff0e accessible on a white background?

#ebff0e on white scores 1.11:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #6F7900 to reach 4.5:1, or #535A00 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ebff0e?

#220EFF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0E72FF and #9A0EFF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ebff0e?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #E9EDC0 for borders, #949B4B for secondary text, #0E36FF as an accent and #758000 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FF9A0E and #72FF0E stays calm, while #220EFF is the loudest partner.

What is #ebff0e in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(8%, 0%, 95%, 0%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #ebff0e warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 29 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FFC30E; nudged cooler, #92FF0E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ebff0e?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 17.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ebff0e as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ebff0e in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ebff0e] or text-[#ebff0e], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #ebff0e with 50% opacity?

rgba(235, 255, 14, 0.5), or #ebff0e80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F5FF87; over black, #768007.

Is #ebff0e a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFF00, ΔE2000 4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ebff0e mean?

As a yellow, it reads optimistic, alert, cheap-and-cheerful. The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #ebff0e?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0FF4B, #ebff0e 45%, #758000). For more colour, a short hue run to #28EE00 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ebff0e in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ebff0e at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.