#779BAE

sRGB: 119 / 155 / 174

Wandering spirits awaken with sunrise
Shimmering rivers shimmer across boundless heavens
Brilliant stars transcend the limits of dreams

#779BAE belongs to the azure family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 119 red, 155 green and 174 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 200.7° lands in the azure region. Its 25.3% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 57.5% 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 (7.08:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 119, 155, 174
HSL: 200.73°, 25.35%, 57.45%
HSV / HSB: 200.73°, 31.61%, 68.24%
CMYK (approx.): 31.61%, 10.92%, 0.00%, 31.76%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 26.968, 30.420, 44.497
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 62.015, -7.717, -13.899
WCAG relative luminance: 0.30421
24-bit decimal: 7838638

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 #779BAE 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: 7.08:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.96:1

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.

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

#AE8A77 sits half a turn (180°) from #779BAE 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.

#779BAE #AE8A77

Analogous

#77AEA6 and #777FAE sit 30° to either side of #779BAE. 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.

#77AEA6 #779BAE #777FAE

Triadic

#779BAE, #AE779B and #9BAE77 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#779BAE #AE779B #9BAE77

Split complementary

Start at #779BAE and look across the wheel. #AE777F and #AEA677 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#779BAE #AE777F #AEA677

Square

Starting with #779BAE, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #A677AE, #AE8A77, then #7FAE77. Across the square, #779BAE pairs with #AE8A77, and #A677AE with #7FAE77.

#779BAE #A677AE #AE8A77 #7FAE77

Tetradic

#779BAE and #AE8A77 are opposites, as are #8A77AE and #9BAE77. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#779BAE #8A77AE #AE8A77 #9BAE77

Tints

Mixing #779BAE with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #92AFBE, keeps 80% of the original. By #E4EBEF, the mixture is 80% white.

#779BAE #92AFBE #ADC3CE #C9D7DF #E4EBEF #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #779BAE with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #5F7C8B, keeps 80% of the original. By #181F23, the mixture is 80% black.

#779BAE #5F7C8B #475D68 #303E46 #181F23 #000000

Tones

Mixing #779BAE with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #7996A5, keeps 80% of the original. By #7E8589, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#779BAE #7996A5 #7B909C #7C8B92 #7E8589 #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

#779BAE

RGB

rgb(119 155 174)

HSL

hsl(200.727 25.346% 57.451%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #779BAE;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#779BAE uses 119 red, 155 green and 174 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 46.7%

Green 60.8%

Blue 68.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #779BAE is 31.6% cyan, 10.9% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 31.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 31.6%

Magenta 10.9%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 31.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #7799AA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #79A in CSS. For a modern design, keep #779BAE when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #669999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #7799AA Nearest web-safe: #669999

Gradient to complement

#779BAE #8098A5 #89959C #939393 #9C9089 #A58D80 #AE8A77

Color vision previews

Compare how #779BAE 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.

#929AAF

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.

#8A93AE

Tritanopia

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

#65A0A1

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.

#8999AF

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.

#8596AE

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#759CA9

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#969696

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.

#8898A2

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 0.18447 G 0.32778 B 0.42327

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 0.49552 G 0.60382 B 0.67431

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.20992 G 0.32302 B 0.41228

CIE xyY

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

x 0.265 y 0.299 Y 30.420

CMY

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

C % 53.333 M % 39.216 Y % 31.765

Binary RGB

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

01110111 10011011 10101110