#A8C19C

sRGB: 168 / 193 / 156

Radiant blossoms illuminate hidden paths
Majestic waterfalls disappear beneath stillness
Rising tides awaken sleeping galaxies

#A8C19C belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 168 red, 193 green and 156 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 100.5° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 23.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 68.4% 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 (10.77:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 168, 193, 156
HSL: 100.54°, 22.98%, 68.43%
HSV / HSB: 100.54°, 19.17%, 75.69%
CMYK (approx.): 12.95%, 0.00%, 19.17%, 24.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 41.217, 48.865, 38.714
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 75.367, -15.364, 15.852
WCAG relative luminance: 0.48865
24-bit decimal: 11059612

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 #A8C19C 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: 10.77:1

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

#B59CC1 sits half a turn (180°) from #A8C19C 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.

#A8C19C #B59CC1

Analogous

#BBC19C and #9CC1A3 sit 30° to either side of #A8C19C. 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.

#BBC19C #A8C19C #9CC1A3

Triadic

#A8C19C, #9CA8C1 and #C19CA8 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#A8C19C #9CA8C1 #C19CA8

Split complementary

Start at #A8C19C and look across the wheel. #A39CC1 and #C19CBB sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#A8C19C #A39CC1 #C19CBB

Square

Starting with #A8C19C, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #9CBBC1, #B59CC1, then #C1A39C. Across the square, #A8C19C pairs with #B59CC1, and #9CBBC1 with #C1A39C.

#A8C19C #9CBBC1 #B59CC1 #C1A39C

Tetradic

#A8C19C and #B59CC1 are opposites, as are #9CC1B5 and #C19CA8. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#A8C19C #9CC1B5 #B59CC1 #C19CA8

Tints

Mixing #A8C19C with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B9CDB0, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEF3EB, the mixture is 80% white.

#A8C19C #B9CDB0 #CBDAC4 #DCE6D7 #EEF3EB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #A8C19C with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #869A7D, keeps 80% of the original. By #22271F, the mixture is 80% black.

#A8C19C #869A7D #65745E #434D3E #22271F #000000

Tones

Mixing #A8C19C with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A0B496, keeps 80% of the original. By #888D86, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#A8C19C #A0B496 #98A791 #909A8B #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

#A8C19C

RGB

rgb(168 193 156)

HSL

hsl(100.541 22.981% 68.431%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #A8C19C;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#A8C19C uses 168 red, 193 green and 156 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 65.9%

Green 75.7%

Blue 61.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #A8C19C is 13.0% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 19.2% yellow and 24.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 13.0%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 19.2%

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 #A8C19C 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

#A8C19C #AABBA2 #ACB5A8 #AFAFAF #B1A8B5 #B3A2BB #B59CC1

Color vision previews

Compare how #A8C19C 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.

#C4BB9A

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.

#C0B99E

Tritanopia

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

#A8BEB7

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.

#BBBD9B

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.

#B9BC9D

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#A9C0A6

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 0.39157 G 0.53328 B 0.33245

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 0.67759 G 0.75387 B 0.62459

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.41673 G 0.52857 B 0.34800

CIE xyY

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

x 0.320 y 0.379 Y 48.865

CMY

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

C % 34.118 M % 24.314 Y % 38.824

Binary RGB

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

10101000 11000001 10011100