#69B00A

sRGB · 105 / 176 / 10

#69B00A belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 105 red, 176 green and 10 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 85.7° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 89.2% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 36.5% 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 (7.82:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 105, 176, 10
HSL: 85.66°, 89.25%, 36.47%
HSV / HSB: 85.66°, 94.32%, 69.02%
CMYK (approx.): 40.34%, 0.00%, 94.32%, 30.98%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 21.405, 34.075, 5.736
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 65.022, -45.029, 64.722
WCAG relative luminance: 0.34076
24-bit decimal: 6926346

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 #69B00A 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 · 7.82:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text · 2.69:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

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. 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

#510AB0 sits half a turn (180°) from #69B00A 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.

#69B00A #510AB0

Analogous

#B0A40A and #16B00A sit 30° to either side of #69B00A. 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.

#B0A40A #69B00A #16B00A

Triadic

#69B00A, #0A69B0 and #B00A69 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#69B00A #0A69B0 #B00A69

Split complementary

Start at #69B00A and look across the wheel. #0A16B0 and #A40AB0 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#69B00A #0A16B0 #A40AB0

Square

Starting with #69B00A, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #0AB0A4, #510AB0, then #B00A16. Across the square, #69B00A pairs with #510AB0, and #0AB0A4 with #B00A16.

#69B00A #0AB0A4 #510AB0 #B00A16

Tetradic

#69B00A and #510AB0 are opposites, as are #0AB051 and #B00A69. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#69B00A #0AB051 #510AB0 #B00A69

Tints

Mixing #69B00A with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #87C03B, keeps 80% of the original. By #E1EFCE, the mixture is 80% white.

#69B00A #87C03B #A5D06C #C3DF9D #E1EFCE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #69B00A with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #548D08, keeps 80% of the original. By #152302, the mixture is 80% black.

#69B00A #548D08 #3F6A06 #2A4604 #152302 #000000

Tones

Mixing #69B00A with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6EA622, keeps 80% of the original. By #7B8A68, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#69B00A #6EA622 #729D39 #779351 #7B8A68 #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

#69B00A

RGB

rgb(105 176 10)

HSL

hsl(85.663 89.247% 36.471%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #69B00A;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#69B00A uses 105 red, 176 green and 10 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 41.2%

Green 69.0%

Blue 3.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #69B00A is 40.3% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 94.3% yellow and 31.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 40.3%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 94.3%

Black 31.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #66AA11. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #6A1 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #69B00A when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #669900, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand · #66AA11 Nearest web-safe · #669900

Gradient to complement

#69B00A #659426 #617941 #5D5D5D #594179 #552694 #510AB0

Color vision previews

Compare how #69B00A 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.

#B8A100

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.

#AE9C27

Tritanopia

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

#6AA895

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.

#A2A600

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.

#9EA31F

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#6EAD5E

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#9E9E9E

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.

#87A773

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 0.14126 G 0.43415 B 0.00304

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 0.47688 G 0.68320 B 0.21092

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.19326 G 0.42443 B 0.03661

CIE xyY

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

x 0.350 y 0.557 Y 34.075

CMY

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

C % 58.824 M % 30.980 Y % 96.078

Binary RGB

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

01101001 10110000 00001010