#AAA395

sRGB: 170 / 163 / 149

Radiant blossoms flourish beyond boundaries
Sacred blossoms flicker through endless evenings
Rising tides settle beneath starlight

#AAA395 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 163 green and 149 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 40.0° lands in the orange region. Its 11.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 62.5% 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 (8.38:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 163, 149
HSL: 40.00°, 10.99%, 62.55%
HSV / HSB: 40.00°, 12.35%, 66.67%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 4.12%, 12.35%, 33.33%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 35.098, 36.911, 33.710
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 67.210, 0.055, 8.175
WCAG relative luminance: 0.36910
24-bit decimal: 11182997

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 #AAA395 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: 8.38:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.51:1

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

#959CAA sits half a turn (180°) from #AAA395 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.

#AAA395 #959CAA

Analogous

#AA9995 and #A7AA95 sit 30° to either side of #AAA395. 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.

#AA9995 #AAA395 #A7AA95

Triadic

#AAA395, #95AAA3 and #A395AA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AAA395 #95AAA3 #A395AA

Split complementary

Start at #AAA395 and look across the wheel. #95A7AA and #9995AA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AAA395 #95A7AA #9995AA

Square

Starting with #AAA395, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #95AA99, #959CAA, then #AA95A6. Across the square, #AAA395 pairs with #959CAA, and #95AA99 with #AA95A6.

#AAA395 #95AA99 #959CAA #AA95A6

Tetradic

#AAA395 and #959CAA are opposites, as are #9CAA95 and #A395AA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AAA395 #9CAA95 #959CAA #A395AA

Tints

Mixing #AAA395 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBB5AA, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEEDEA, the mixture is 80% white.

#AAA395 #BBB5AA #CCC8BF #DDDAD5 #EEEDEA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AAA395 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #888277, keeps 80% of the original. By #22211E, the mixture is 80% black.

#AAA395 #888277 #666259 #44413C #22211E #000000

Tones

Mixing #AAA395 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A29C91, keeps 80% of the original. By #888784, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AAA395 #A29C91 #99958D #918E88 #888784 #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

#AAA395

RGB

rgb(170 163 149)

HSL

hsl(40.000 10.995% 62.549%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AAA395;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AAA395 uses 170 red, 163 green and 149 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 63.9%

Blue 58.4%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AAA395 is 0.0% cyan, 4.1% magenta, 12.4% yellow and 33.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 4.1%

Yellow 12.4%

Black 33.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AAAA99. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #AA9 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AAA395 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #999999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AAAA99 Nearest web-safe: #999999

Gradient to complement

#AAA395 #A7A299 #A3A19C #A0A0A0 #9C9EA3 #999DA7 #959CAA

Color vision previews

Compare how #AAA395 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.

#A7A394

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.

#A9A495

Tritanopia

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

#AEA09F

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.

#A8A395

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.

#A9A495

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#ABA299

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#A4A4A4

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.

#A7A39D

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 0.36625 B 0.30054

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 0.66190 G 0.64015 B 0.59003

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.39564 G 0.36744 B 0.30703

CIE xyY

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

x 0.332 y 0.349 Y 36.911

CMY

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

C % 33.333 M % 36.078 Y % 41.569

Binary RGB

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

10101010 10100011 10010101