#68614A

sRGB: 104 / 97 / 74

Crystal visions illuminate hidden paths
Secret gardens disappear beneath stillness
Quiet wishes illuminate hidden worlds

#68614A belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 104 red, 97 green and 74 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 46.0° lands in the yellow region. Its 16.9% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 34.9% 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 (6.18:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 104, 97, 74
HSL: 46.00°, 16.85%, 34.90%
HSV / HSB: 46.00°, 28.85%, 40.78%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 6.73%, 28.85%, 59.22%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 11.219, 11.987, 8.202
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 41.195, -1.261, 14.154
WCAG relative luminance: 0.11987
24-bit decimal: 6840650

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 #68614A 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: 3.40:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 6.18:1

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

#4A5168 sits half a turn (180°) from #68614A 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.

#68614A #4A5168

Analogous

#68524A and #60684A sit 30° to either side of #68614A. 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.

#68524A #68614A #60684A

Triadic

#68614A, #4A6861 and #614A68 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#68614A #4A6861 #614A68

Split complementary

Start at #68614A and look across the wheel. #4A6068 and #524A68 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#68614A #4A6068 #524A68

Square

Starting with #68614A, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #4A6852, #4A5168, then #684A60. Across the square, #68614A pairs with #4A5168, and #4A6852 with #684A60.

#68614A #4A6852 #4A5168 #684A60

Tetradic

#68614A and #4A5168 are opposites, as are #51684A and #614A68. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#68614A #51684A #4A5168 #614A68

Tints

Mixing #68614A with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #86816E, keeps 80% of the original. By #E1DFDB, the mixture is 80% white.

#68614A #86816E #A4A092 #C3C0B7 #E1DFDB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #68614A with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #534E3B, keeps 80% of the original. By #15130F, the mixture is 80% black.

#68614A #534E3B #3E3A2C #2A271E #15130F #000000

Tones

Mixing #68614A with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6D6755, keeps 80% of the original. By #7B7A75, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#68614A #6D6755 #726D60 #76746A #7B7A75 #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

#68614A

RGB

rgb(104 97 74)

HSL

hsl(46.000 16.854% 34.902%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #68614A;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#68614A uses 104 red, 97 green and 74 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 40.8%

Green 38.0%

Blue 29.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #68614A is 0.0% cyan, 6.7% magenta, 28.8% yellow and 59.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 6.7%

Yellow 28.8%

Black 59.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #666644. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #664 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #68614A when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #666633, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #666644 Nearest web-safe: #666633

Gradient to complement

#68614A #635E4F #5E5C54 #595959 #54565E #4F5463 #4A5168

Color vision previews

Compare how #68614A 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.

#666049

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.

#68624B

Tritanopia

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

#6D5D5B

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.

#676049

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.

#68624A

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#696051

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#616161

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.

#656156

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 0.13843 G 0.11954 B 0.06848

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 0.40314 G 0.38134 B 0.30026

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.13508 G 0.12017 B 0.07337

CIE xyY

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

x 0.357 y 0.382 Y 11.987

CMY

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

C % 59.216 M % 61.961 Y % 70.980

Binary RGB

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

01101000 01100001 01001010