#A5C19A

sRGB: 165 / 193 / 154

Radiant blossoms dance upon still waters
Majestic waterfalls disappear beneath stillness
Rising tides illuminate hidden worlds

#A5C19A belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 165 red, 193 green and 154 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 103.1° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 23.9% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 68.0% 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 (10.69:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 165, 193, 154
HSL: 103.08°, 23.93%, 68.04%
HSV / HSB: 103.08°, 20.21%, 75.69%
CMYK (approx.): 14.51%, 0.00%, 20.21%, 24.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 40.418, 48.472, 37.800
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 75.122, -16.769, 16.553
WCAG relative luminance: 0.48472
24-bit decimal: 10863002

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 #A5C19A 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: 10.69:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.96:1

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

#B69AC1 sits half a turn (180°) from #A5C19A 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.

#A5C19A #B69AC1

Analogous

#B9C19A and #9AC1A2 sit 30° to either side of #A5C19A. 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.

#B9C19A #A5C19A #9AC1A2

Triadic

#A5C19A, #9AA5C1 and #C19AA5 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#A5C19A #9AA5C1 #C19AA5

Split complementary

Start at #A5C19A and look across the wheel. #A39AC1 and #C19AB9 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#A5C19A #A39AC1 #C19AB9

Square

Starting with #A5C19A, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #9AB9C1, #B69AC1, then #C1A39A. Across the square, #A5C19A pairs with #B69AC1, and #9AB9C1 with #C1A39A.

#A5C19A #9AB9C1 #B69AC1 #C1A39A

Tetradic

#A5C19A and #B69AC1 are opposites, as are #9AC1B6 and #C19AA5. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#A5C19A #9AC1B6 #B69AC1 #C19AA5

Tints

Mixing #A5C19A with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B7CDAE, keeps 80% of the original. By #EDF3EB, the mixture is 80% white.

#A5C19A #B7CDAE #C9DAC2 #DBE6D7 #EDF3EB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #A5C19A with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #849A7B, keeps 80% of the original. By #21271F, the mixture is 80% black.

#A5C19A #849A7B #63745C #424D3E #21271F #000000

Tones

Mixing #A5C19A with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9EB495, keeps 80% of the original. By #878D85, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#A5C19A #9EB495 #96A790 #8F9A8A #878D85 #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

#A5C19A

RGB

rgb(165 193 154)

HSL

hsl(103.077 23.926% 68.039%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #A5C19A;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#A5C19A uses 165 red, 193 green and 154 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 64.7%

Green 75.7%

Blue 60.4%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #A5C19A is 14.5% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 20.2% yellow and 24.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 14.5%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 20.2%

Black 24.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AABB99. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #AB9 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #A5C19A when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #99CC99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AABB99 Nearest web-safe: #99CC99

Gradient to complement

#A5C19A #A8BBA1 #ABB4A7 #AEAEAE #B0A7B4 #B3A1BB #B69AC1

Color vision previews

Compare how #A5C19A 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.

#C4BB98

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.

#BFB89C

Tritanopia

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

#A4BEB6

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.

#BABD99

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.

#B8BB9B

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#A6C0A5

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#B9B9B9

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.

#AFBDAA

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 0.37626 G 0.53328 B 0.32314

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 0.66828 G 0.75355 B 0.61742

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.40414 G 0.52806 B 0.33926

CIE xyY

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

x 0.319 y 0.383 Y 48.472

CMY

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

C % 35.294 M % 24.314 Y % 39.608

Binary RGB

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

10100101 11000001 10011010