#479220

sRGB: 71 / 146 / 32

Silver raindrops awaken with sunrise
Shimmering rivers tremble in empty gardens
Distant echoes vanish without farewell

#479220 belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 71 red, 146 green and 32 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 99.5° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 64.0% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue 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 (5.40:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 71, 146, 32
HSL: 99.47°, 64.04%, 34.90%
HSV / HSB: 99.47°, 78.08%, 57.25%
CMYK (approx.): 51.37%, 0.00%, 78.08%, 42.75%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 13.138, 22.001, 4.921
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 54.028, -43.323, 49.503
WCAG relative luminance: 0.22002
24-bit decimal: 4690464

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 #479220 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: 5.40:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 3.89:1

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

#6B2092 sits half a turn (180°) from #479220 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.

#479220 #6B2092

Analogous

#809220 and #209232 sit 30° to either side of #479220. 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.

#809220 #479220 #209232

Triadic

#479220, #204792 and #922047 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#479220 #204792 #922047

Split complementary

Start at #479220 and look across the wheel. #322092 and #922080 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#479220 #322092 #922080

Square

Starting with #479220, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #208092, #6B2092, then #923220. Across the square, #479220 pairs with #6B2092, and #208092 with #923220.

#479220 #208092 #6B2092 #923220

Tetradic

#479220 and #6B2092 are opposites, as are #20926B and #922047. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#479220 #20926B #6B2092 #922047

Tints

Mixing #479220 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6CA84D, keeps 80% of the original. By #DAE9D2, the mixture is 80% white.

#479220 #6CA84D #91BE79 #B5D3A6 #DAE9D2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #479220 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #39751A, keeps 80% of the original. By #0E1D06, the mixture is 80% black.

#479220 #39751A #2B5813 #1C3A0D #0E1D06 #000000

Tones

Mixing #479220 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #528E33, keeps 80% of the original. By #75846D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#479220 #528E33 #5E8B46 #69875A #75846D #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

#479220

RGB

rgb(71 146 32)

HSL

hsl(99.474 64.045% 34.902%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #479220;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#479220 uses 71 red, 146 green and 32 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 27.8%

Green 57.3%

Blue 12.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #479220 is 51.4% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 78.1% yellow and 42.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 51.4%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 78.1%

Black 42.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #449922. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #492 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #479220 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #339933, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #449922 Nearest web-safe: #339933

Gradient to complement

#479220 #4D7F33 #536C46 #595959 #5F466C #65337F #6B2092

Color vision previews

Compare how #479220 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.

#978504

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.

#8D7F2C

Tritanopia

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

#428D7D

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.

#828919

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.

#7E8628

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#4B8F51

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#818181

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.

#698A60

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 0.28744 B 0.01444

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 0.35396 G 0.56572 B 0.20610

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.10286 G 0.27999 B 0.03504

CIE xyY

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

x 0.328 y 0.549 Y 22.001

CMY

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

C % 72.157 M % 42.745 Y % 87.451

Binary RGB

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

01000111 10010010 00100000