#AA8564

sRGB: 170 / 133 / 100

#AA8564 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 133 green and 100 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 28.3° lands in the orange region. Its 29.2% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 52.9% 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 (6.25:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 133, 100
HSL: 28.29°, 29.17%, 52.94%
HSV / HSB: 28.29°, 41.18%, 66.67%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 21.76%, 41.18%, 33.33%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 27.264, 26.242, 15.686
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 58.266, 9.643, 23.207
WCAG relative luminance: 0.26241
24-bit decimal: 11175268

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 #AA8564 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: 6.25:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 3.36:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

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

#6489AA sits half a turn (180°) from #AA8564 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.

#AA8564 #6489AA

Analogous

#AA6466 and #AAA864 sit 30° to either side of #AA8564. 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.

#AA6466 #AA8564 #AAA864

Triadic

#AA8564, #64AA85 and #8564AA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AA8564 #64AA85 #8564AA

Split complementary

Start at #AA8564 and look across the wheel. #64AAA8 and #6466AA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AA8564 #64AAA8 #6466AA

Square

Starting with #AA8564, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #66AA64, #6489AA, then #A864AA. Across the square, #AA8564 pairs with #6489AA, and #66AA64 with #A864AA.

#AA8564 #66AA64 #6489AA #A864AA

Tetradic

#AA8564 and #6489AA are opposites, as are #89AA64 and #8564AA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AA8564 #89AA64 #6489AA #8564AA

Tints

Mixing #AA8564 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BB9D83, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEE7E0, the mixture is 80% white.

#AA8564 #BB9D83 #CCB6A2 #DDCEC1 #EEE7E0 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AA8564 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #886A50, keeps 80% of the original. By #221B14, the mixture is 80% black.

#AA8564 #886A50 #66503C #443528 #221B14 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AA8564 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A2846A, keeps 80% of the original. By #88817A, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AA8564 #A2846A #99836F #918275 #88817A #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

#AA8564

RGB

rgb(170 133 100)

HSL

hsl(28.286 29.167% 52.941%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AA8564;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AA8564 uses 170 red, 133 green and 100 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 52.2%

Blue 39.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AA8564 is 0.0% cyan, 21.8% magenta, 41.2% yellow and 33.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 21.8%

Yellow 41.2%

Black 33.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AA8866. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #A86 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AA8564 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #999966, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AA8866 Nearest web-safe: #999966

Gradient to complement

#AA8564 #9E8670 #93867B #878787 #7B8893 #70889E #6489AA

Color vision previews

Compare how #AA8564 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.

#918762

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.

#998F65

Tritanopia

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

#B57D7C

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.

#9B8763

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.

#9E8C64

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AB836E

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#8C8C8C

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.

#9C897A

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 0.40198 G 0.23455 B 0.12744

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 0.64393 G 0.52722 B 0.40986

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.37225 G 0.24011 B 0.13988

CIE xyY

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

x 0.394 y 0.379 Y 26.242

CMY

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

C % 33.333 M % 47.843 Y % 60.784

Binary RGB

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

10101010 10000101 01100100