#0EA46A

sRGB: 14 / 164 / 106

Hollow echoes fracture ancient heavens
Sacred blossoms breathe beneath silver clouds
Wandering dreams illuminate hidden worlds

#0EA46A belongs to the green-cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 14 red, 164 green and 106 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 156.8° lands in the green-cyan region. Its 84.3% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 34.9% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (6.54:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 14, 164, 106
HSL: 156.80°, 84.27%, 34.90%
HSV / HSB: 156.80°, 91.46%, 64.31%
CMYK (approx.): 91.46%, 0.00%, 35.37%, 35.69%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 16.057, 27.684, 18.133
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 59.602, -49.463, 20.319
WCAG relative luminance: 0.27685
24-bit decimal: 959594

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #0EA46A in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 6.54:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 3.21:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#A40E48 sits half a turn (180°) from #0EA46A on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#0EA46A #A40E48

Analogous

#0EA41F and #0E93A4 sit 30° to either side of #0EA46A. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#0EA41F #0EA46A #0E93A4

Triadic

#0EA46A, #6A0EA4 and #A46A0E are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#0EA46A #6A0EA4 #A46A0E

Split complementary

Start at #0EA46A and look across the wheel. #A40E93 and #A41F0E sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#0EA46A #A40E93 #A41F0E

Square

Starting with #0EA46A, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #1F0EA4, #A40E48, then #93A40E. Across the square, #0EA46A pairs with #A40E48, and #1F0EA4 with #93A40E.

#0EA46A #1F0EA4 #A40E48 #93A40E

Tetradic

#0EA46A and #A40E48 are opposites, as are #0E48A4 and #A46A0E. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#0EA46A #0E48A4 #A40E48 #A46A0E

Tints

Mixing #0EA46A with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #3EB688, keeps 80% of the original. By #CFEDE1, the mixture is 80% white.

#0EA46A #3EB688 #6EC8A6 #9FDBC3 #CFEDE1 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #0EA46A with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #0B8355, keeps 80% of the original. By #032115, the mixture is 80% black.

#0EA46A #0B8355 #086240 #06422A #032115 #000000

Tones

Mixing #0EA46A with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #259D6E, keeps 80% of the original. By #69877C, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#0EA46A #259D6E #3C9673 #528E77 #69877C #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#0EA46A

RGB

rgb(14 164 106)

HSL

hsl(156.800 84.270% 34.902%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #0EA46A;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#0EA46A uses 14 red, 164 green and 106 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 5.5%

Green 64.3%

Blue 41.6%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #0EA46A is 91.5% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 35.4% yellow and 35.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 91.5%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 35.4%

Black 35.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #11AA66. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #1A6 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #0EA46A when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #009966, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #11AA66 Nearest web-safe: #009966

Gradient to complement

#0EA46A #278B64 #40725F #595959 #724053 #8B274E #A40E48

Color vision previews

Compare how #0EA46A appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#A29666

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#928B6E

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#00A395

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#859A69

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#7D946D

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#16A27B

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#909090

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#699A7F

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.00439 G 0.37124 B 0.14413

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.29238 G 0.63350 B 0.43429

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.06952 G 0.35906 B 0.15818

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.260 y 0.447 Y 27.684

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 94.510 M % 35.686 Y % 58.431

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

00001110 10100100 01101010