#A69293

sRGB: 166 / 146 / 147

Radiant blossoms emerge from slumber
Shimmering rivers tremble in empty gardens
Rising tides linger beyond yesterday

#A69293 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 166 red, 146 green and 147 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 357.0° lands in the red region. Its 10.1% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 61.2% 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 (7.15:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 166, 146, 147
HSL: 357.00°, 10.10%, 61.18%
HSV / HSB: 357.00°, 12.05%, 65.10%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 12.05%, 11.45%, 34.90%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 31.270, 30.772, 31.897
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 62.314, 7.609, 2.205
WCAG relative luminance: 0.30771
24-bit decimal: 10916499

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 #A69293 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: 7.15:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.94:1

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

#92A6A5 sits half a turn (180°) from #A69293 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.

#A69293 #92A6A5

Analogous

#A6929D and #A69B92 sit 30° to either side of #A69293. 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.

#A6929D #A69293 #A69B92

Triadic

#A69293, #93A692 and #9293A6 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#A69293 #93A692 #9293A6

Split complementary

Start at #A69293 and look across the wheel. #92A69B and #929DA6 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#A69293 #92A69B #929DA6

Square

Starting with #A69293, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #9DA692, #92A6A5, then #9B92A6. Across the square, #A69293 pairs with #92A6A5, and #9DA692 with #9B92A6.

#A69293 #9DA692 #92A6A5 #9B92A6

Tetradic

#A69293 and #92A6A5 are opposites, as are #A6A592 and #9293A6. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#A69293 #A6A592 #92A6A5 #9293A6

Tints

Mixing #A69293 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B8A8A9, keeps 80% of the original. By #EDE9E9, the mixture is 80% white.

#A69293 #B8A8A9 #CABEBE #DBD3D4 #EDE9E9 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #A69293 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #857576, keeps 80% of the original. By #211D1D, the mixture is 80% black.

#A69293 #857576 #645858 #423A3B #211D1D #000000

Tones

Mixing #A69293 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9E8E8F, keeps 80% of the original. By #888484, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#A69293 #9E8E8F #978B8B #8F8788 #888484 #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

#A69293

RGB

rgb(166 146 147)

HSL

hsl(357.000 10.101% 61.176%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #A69293;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#A69293 uses 166 red, 146 green and 147 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 65.1%

Green 57.3%

Blue 57.6%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #A69293 is 0.0% cyan, 12.0% magenta, 11.4% yellow and 34.9% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 12.0%

Yellow 11.4%

Black 34.9%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AA9999. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #A99 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #A69293 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #999999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AA9999 Nearest web-safe: #999999

Gradient to complement

#A69293 #A39596 #9F9999 #9C9C9C #999F9F #95A3A2 #92A6A5

Color vision previews

Compare how #A69293 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.

#959593

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.

#9A9893

Tritanopia

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

#AA9092

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.

#9B9493

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.

#9D9693

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#A69293

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#979797

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.

#9F9495

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 0.38133 G 0.28744 B 0.29177

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 0.63795 G 0.57538 B 0.57757

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.36466 G 0.29056 B 0.29299

CIE xyY

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

x 0.333 y 0.328 Y 30.772

CMY

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

C % 34.902 M % 42.745 Y % 42.353

Binary RGB

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

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