#8DA170

sRGB: 141 / 161 / 112

#8DA170 belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 141 red, 161 green and 112 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 84.5° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 20.7% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 53.5% 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 (7.46:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 141, 161, 112
HSL: 84.49°, 20.68%, 53.53%
HSV / HSB: 84.49°, 30.43%, 63.14%
CMYK (approx.): 12.42%, 0.00%, 30.43%, 36.86%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 26.653, 32.322, 20.164
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 63.608, -15.868, 23.263
WCAG relative luminance: 0.32322
24-bit decimal: 9281904

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 #8DA170 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: 7.46:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.81:1

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

#8470A1 sits half a turn (180°) from #8DA170 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.

#8DA170 #8470A1

Analogous

#A19D70 and #75A170 sit 30° to either side of #8DA170. 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.

#A19D70 #8DA170 #75A170

Triadic

#8DA170, #708DA1 and #A1708D are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#8DA170 #708DA1 #A1708D

Split complementary

Start at #8DA170 and look across the wheel. #7075A1 and #9D70A1 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#8DA170 #7075A1 #9D70A1

Square

Starting with #8DA170, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #70A19D, #8470A1, then #A17074. Across the square, #8DA170 pairs with #8470A1, and #70A19D with #A17074.

#8DA170 #70A19D #8470A1 #A17074

Tetradic

#8DA170 and #8470A1 are opposites, as are #70A184 and #A1708D. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#8DA170 #70A184 #8470A1 #A1708D

Tints

Mixing #8DA170 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A4B48D, keeps 80% of the original. By #E8ECE2, the mixture is 80% white.

#8DA170 #A4B48D #BBC7A9 #D1D9C6 #E8ECE2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #8DA170 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #71815A, keeps 80% of the original. By #1C2016, the mixture is 80% black.

#8DA170 #71815A #556143 #38402D #1C2016 #000000

Tones

Mixing #8DA170 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8A9A73, keeps 80% of the original. By #83877D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#8DA170 #8A9A73 #889476 #858D7A #83877D #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

#8DA170

RGB

rgb(141 161 112)

HSL

hsl(84.490 20.675% 53.529%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #8DA170;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#8DA170 uses 141 red, 161 green and 112 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 55.3%

Green 63.1%

Blue 43.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #8DA170 is 12.4% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 30.4% yellow and 36.9% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 12.4%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 30.4%

Black 36.9%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #889977. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #897 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #8DA170 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #999966, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #889977 Nearest web-safe: #999966

Gradient to complement

#8DA170 #8C9978 #8A9180 #898989 #878091 #867899 #8470A1

Color vision previews

Compare how #8DA170 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.

#A69B6D

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.

#A39A72

Tritanopia

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

#909C94

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.

#9E9D6F

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.

#9D9C71

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#8F9F7F

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#9A9A9A

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.

#949E87

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 0.26636 G 0.35640 B 0.16203

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 0.56789 G 0.62897 B 0.45882

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.28234 G 0.35341 B 0.17788

CIE xyY

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

x 0.337 y 0.408 Y 32.322

CMY

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

C % 44.706 M % 36.863 Y % 56.078

Binary RGB

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

10001101 10100001 01110000