#476366

sRGB: 71 / 99 / 102

Silver raindrops awaken with sunrise
Secret gardens flicker through endless evenings
Wandering dreams find forgotten pathways

#476366 belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 71 red, 99 green and 102 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 185.8° lands in the cyan region. Its 17.9% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 33.9% 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 (6.47:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 71, 99, 102
HSL: 185.81°, 17.92%, 33.92%
HSV / HSB: 185.81°, 30.39%, 40.00%
CMYK (approx.): 30.39%, 2.94%, 0.00%, 60.00%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 9.458, 11.222, 14.239
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 39.952, -9.473, -5.039
WCAG relative luminance: 0.11223
24-bit decimal: 4678502

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 #476366 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: 3.24:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 6.47:1

Normal text: AA
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

#664A47 sits half a turn (180°) from #476366 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.

#476366 #664A47

Analogous

#476659 and #475466 sit 30° to either side of #476366. 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.

#476659 #476366 #475466

Triadic

#476366, #664763 and #636647 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#476366 #664763 #636647

Split complementary

Start at #476366 and look across the wheel. #664754 and #665947 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#476366 #664754 #665947

Square

Starting with #476366, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #594766, #664A47, then #546647. Across the square, #476366 pairs with #664A47, and #594766 with #546647.

#476366 #594766 #664A47 #546647

Tetradic

#476366 and #664A47 are opposites, as are #4A4766 and #636647. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#476366 #4A4766 #664A47 #636647

Tints

Mixing #476366 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6C8285, keeps 80% of the original. By #DAE0E0, the mixture is 80% white.

#476366 #6C8285 #91A1A3 #B5C1C2 #DAE0E0 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #476366 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #394F52, keeps 80% of the original. By #0E1414, the mixture is 80% black.

#476366 #394F52 #2B3B3D #1C2829 #0E1414 #000000

Tones

Mixing #476366 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #52696B, keeps 80% of the original. By #757A7B, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#476366 #52696B #5E6F70 #697476 #757A7B #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

#476366

RGB

rgb(71 99 102)

HSL

hsl(185.806 17.919% 33.922%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #476366;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#476366 uses 71 red, 99 green and 102 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 27.8%

Green 38.8%

Blue 40.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #476366 is 30.4% cyan, 2.9% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 60.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 30.4%

Magenta 2.9%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 60.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #446666. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #466 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #476366 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #336666, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #446666 Nearest web-safe: #336666

Gradient to complement

#476366 #4C5F61 #515B5C #575757 #5C5251 #614E4C #664A47

Color vision previews

Compare how #476366 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.

#5F6166

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.

#595C66

Tritanopia

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

#3C6564

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.

#576166

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.

#545F66

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#466365

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#5E5E5E

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.

#546162

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 0.06301 G 0.12477 B 0.13287

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 0.30148 G 0.38519 B 0.39745

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.07398 G 0.12272 B 0.13109

CIE xyY

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

x 0.271 y 0.321 Y 11.222

CMY

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

C % 72.157 M % 61.176 Y % 60.000

Binary RGB

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

01000111 01100011 01100110