#A7C19E

sRGB: 167 / 193 / 158

Radiant blossoms awaken with sunrise
Majestic waterfalls disappear beneath stillness
Rising tides transcend the limits of dreams

#A7C19E belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 167 red, 193 green and 158 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 104.6° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 22.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 68.8% 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 (10.76:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 167, 193, 158
HSL: 104.57°, 22.01%, 68.82%
HSV / HSB: 104.57°, 18.13%, 75.69%
CMYK (approx.): 13.47%, 0.00%, 18.13%, 24.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 41.176, 48.824, 39.603
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 75.341, -15.380, 14.730
WCAG relative luminance: 0.48824
24-bit decimal: 10994078

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 #A7C19E 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: 10.76:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.95:1

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

#B89EC1 sits half a turn (180°) from #A7C19E 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.

#A7C19E #B89EC1

Analogous

#B9C19E and #9EC1A6 sit 30° to either side of #A7C19E. 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.

#B9C19E #A7C19E #9EC1A6

Triadic

#A7C19E, #9EA7C1 and #C19EA7 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#A7C19E #9EA7C1 #C19EA7

Split complementary

Start at #A7C19E and look across the wheel. #A79EC1 and #C19EB9 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#A7C19E #A79EC1 #C19EB9

Square

Starting with #A7C19E, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #9EB9C1, #B89EC1, then #C1A79E. Across the square, #A7C19E pairs with #B89EC1, and #9EB9C1 with #C1A79E.

#A7C19E #9EB9C1 #B89EC1 #C1A79E

Tetradic

#A7C19E and #B89EC1 are opposites, as are #9EC1B8 and #C19EA7. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#A7C19E #9EC1B8 #B89EC1 #C19EA7

Tints

Mixing #A7C19E with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B9CDB1, keeps 80% of the original. By #EDF3EC, the mixture is 80% white.

#A7C19E #B9CDB1 #CADAC5 #DCE6D8 #EDF3EC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #A7C19E with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #869A7E, keeps 80% of the original. By #212720, the mixture is 80% black.

#A7C19E #869A7E #64745F #434D3F #212720 #000000

Tones

Mixing #A7C19E with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9FB498, keeps 80% of the original. By #888D86, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#A7C19E #9FB498 #97A792 #909A8C #888D86 #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

#A7C19E

RGB

rgb(167 193 158)

HSL

hsl(104.571 22.013% 68.824%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #A7C19E;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#A7C19E uses 167 red, 193 green and 158 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 65.5%

Green 75.7%

Blue 62.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #A7C19E is 13.5% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 18.1% yellow and 24.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 13.5%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 18.1%

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 #A7C19E 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

#A7C19E #AABBA4 #ADB5AA #B0B0B0 #B2AAB5 #B5A4BB #B89EC1

Color vision previews

Compare how #A7C19E 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.

#C4BB9C

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.

#BFB9A0

Tritanopia

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

#A6BEB7

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.

#BABD9D

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.

#B9BB9F

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#A8C0A8

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#BABABA

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.

#B1BDAC

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 0.38643 G 0.53328 B 0.34191

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 0.67448 G 0.75376 B 0.63148

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.41250 G 0.52840 B 0.35653

CIE xyY

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

x 0.318 y 0.377 Y 48.824

CMY

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

C % 34.510 M % 24.314 Y % 38.039

Binary RGB

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

10100111 11000001 10011110