#445A34

sRGB: 68 / 90 / 52

Silver raindrops shimmer beneath moonlight
Gentle breezes awaken beneath celestial skies
Fleeting moments drift toward tomorrow

#445A34 belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 68 red, 90 green and 52 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 94.7° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 26.8% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 27.8% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (7.61:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 68, 90, 52
HSL: 94.74°, 26.76%, 27.84%
HSV / HSB: 94.74°, 42.22%, 35.29%
CMYK (approx.): 24.44%, 0.00%, 42.22%, 64.71%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 6.660, 8.789, 4.595
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 35.575, -16.175, 19.298
WCAG relative luminance: 0.08789
24-bit decimal: 4479540

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 #445A34 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: 2.76:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 7.61:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

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

#4A345A sits half a turn (180°) from #445A34 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.

#445A34 #4A345A

Analogous

#575A34 and #345A37 sit 30° to either side of #445A34. 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.

#575A34 #445A34 #345A37

Triadic

#445A34, #34445A and #5A3444 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#445A34 #34445A #5A3444

Split complementary

Start at #445A34 and look across the wheel. #37345A and #5A3457 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#445A34 #37345A #5A3457

Square

Starting with #445A34, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #34575A, #4A345A, then #5A3734. Across the square, #445A34 pairs with #4A345A, and #34575A with #5A3734.

#445A34 #34575A #4A345A #5A3734

Tetradic

#445A34 and #4A345A are opposites, as are #345A4A and #5A3444. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#445A34 #345A4A #4A345A #5A3444

Tints

Mixing #445A34 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #697B5D, keeps 80% of the original. By #DADED6, the mixture is 80% white.

#445A34 #697B5D #8F9C85 #B4BDAE #DADED6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #445A34 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #36482A, keeps 80% of the original. By #0E120A, the mixture is 80% black.

#445A34 #36482A #29361F #1B2415 #0E120A #000000

Tones

Mixing #445A34 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #506243, keeps 80% of the original. By #747871, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#445A34 #506243 #5C6952 #687162 #747871 #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

#445A34

RGB

rgb(68 90 52)

HSL

hsl(94.737 26.761% 27.843%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #445A34;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#445A34 uses 68 red, 90 green and 52 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 26.7%

Green 35.3%

Blue 20.4%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #445A34 is 24.4% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 42.2% yellow and 64.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 24.4%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 42.2%

Black 64.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #445533. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #453 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #445A34 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #336633, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #445533 Nearest web-safe: #336633

Gradient to complement

#445A34 #45543A #464D41 #474747 #48414D #493A54 #4A345A

Color vision previews

Compare how #445A34 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.

#5D5531

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.

#5A5336

Tritanopia

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

#445751

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.

#555633

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.

#545535

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#455940

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#545454

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.

#4C5746

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 0.05781 G 0.10224 B 0.03434

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 0.28428 G 0.35048 B 0.21993

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.06569 G 0.10077 B 0.03966

CIE xyY

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

x 0.332 y 0.439 Y 8.789

CMY

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

C % 73.333 M % 64.706 Y % 79.608

Binary RGB

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

01000100 01011010 00110100