#856490

sRGB: 133 / 100 / 144

Golden embers dance upon still waters
Secret gardens breathe beneath silver clouds
Rising tides vanish without farewell

#856490 belongs to the magenta family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 133 red, 100 green and 144 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 285.0° lands in the magenta region. Its 18.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 47.8% 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 (4.97:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 133, 100, 144
HSL: 285.00°, 18.03%, 47.84%
HSV / HSB: 285.00°, 30.56%, 56.47%
CMYK (approx.): 7.64%, 30.56%, 0.00%, 43.53%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 19.263, 16.115, 28.482
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 47.125, 21.609, -19.064
WCAG relative luminance: 0.16115
24-bit decimal: 8742032

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 #856490 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: 4.22:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 4.97:1

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

#6F9064 sits half a turn (180°) from #856490 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.

#856490 #6F9064

Analogous

#6F6490 and #906485 sit 30° to either side of #856490. 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.

#6F6490 #856490 #906485

Triadic

#856490, #908564 and #649085 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#856490 #908564 #649085

Split complementary

Start at #856490 and look across the wheel. #859064 and #64906F sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#856490 #859064 #64906F

Square

Starting with #856490, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #906F64, #6F9064, then #648590. Across the square, #856490 pairs with #6F9064, and #906F64 with #648590.

#856490 #906F64 #6F9064 #648590

Tetradic

#856490 and #6F9064 are opposites, as are #90646F and #649085. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#856490 #90646F #6F9064 #649085

Tints

Mixing #856490 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9D83A6, keeps 80% of the original. By #E7E0E9, the mixture is 80% white.

#856490 #9D83A6 #B6A2BC #CEC1D3 #E7E0E9 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #856490 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6A5073, keeps 80% of the original. By #1B141D, the mixture is 80% black.

#856490 #6A5073 #503C56 #35283A #1B141D #000000

Tones

Mixing #856490 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #846A8D, keeps 80% of the original. By #817A83, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#856490 #846A8D #836F8A #827586 #817A83 #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

#856490

RGB

rgb(133 100 144)

HSL

hsl(285.000 18.033% 47.843%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #856490;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#856490 uses 133 red, 100 green and 144 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 52.2%

Green 39.2%

Blue 56.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #856490 is 7.6% cyan, 30.6% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 43.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 7.6%

Magenta 30.6%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 43.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #886688. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #868 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #856490 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #996699, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #886688 Nearest web-safe: #996699

Gradient to complement

#856490 #816B89 #7E7381 #7A7A7A #768173 #73896B #6F9064

Color vision previews

Compare how #856490 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.

#5E6E92

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.

#66718F

Tritanopia

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

#856974

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.

#6E6B91

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.

#706D8F

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#846687

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#707070

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.

#7B6A81

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 0.23455 G 0.12744 B 0.27889

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 0.50161 G 0.39731 B 0.55372

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.21553 G 0.13099 B 0.26717

CIE xyY

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

x 0.302 y 0.252 Y 16.115

CMY

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

C % 47.843 M % 60.784 Y % 43.529

Binary RGB

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

10000101 01100100 10010000