#AAA797

sRGB: 170 / 167 / 151

Radiant blossoms flourish beyond boundaries
Sacred blossoms unfold through ancient forests
Rising tides embrace the coming dawn

#AAA797 belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 167 green and 151 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 50.5° lands in the yellow region. Its 10.1% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 62.9% 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 (8.68:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 167, 151
HSL: 50.53°, 10.05%, 62.94%
HSV / HSB: 50.53°, 11.18%, 66.67%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 1.76%, 11.18%, 33.33%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 35.981, 38.418, 34.799
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 68.328, -1.780, 8.661
WCAG relative luminance: 0.38418
24-bit decimal: 11184023

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 #AAA797 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: 8.68:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.42:1

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

#979AAA sits half a turn (180°) from #AAA797 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.

#AAA797 #979AAA

Analogous

#AA9E97 and #A3AA97 sit 30° to either side of #AAA797. 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.

#AA9E97 #AAA797 #A3AA97

Triadic

#AAA797, #97AAA7 and #A797AA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AAA797 #97AAA7 #A797AA

Split complementary

Start at #AAA797 and look across the wheel. #97A3AA and #9E97AA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AAA797 #97A3AA #9E97AA

Square

Starting with #AAA797, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #97AA9E, #979AAA, then #AA97A3. Across the square, #AAA797 pairs with #979AAA, and #97AA9E with #AA97A3.

#AAA797 #97AA9E #979AAA #AA97A3

Tetradic

#AAA797 and #979AAA are opposites, as are #9AAA97 and #A797AA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AAA797 #9AAA97 #979AAA #A797AA

Tints

Mixing #AAA797 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBB9AC, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEEDEA, the mixture is 80% white.

#AAA797 #BBB9AC #CCCAC1 #DDDCD5 #EEEDEA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AAA797 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #888679, keeps 80% of the original. By #22211E, the mixture is 80% black.

#AAA797 #888679 #66645B #44433C #22211E #000000

Tones

Mixing #AAA797 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A29F92, keeps 80% of the original. By #888885, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AAA797 #A29F92 #99978E #919089 #888885 #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

#AAA797

RGB

rgb(170 167 151)

HSL

hsl(50.526 10.053% 62.941%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AAA797;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AAA797 uses 170 red, 167 green and 151 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 65.5%

Blue 59.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AAA797 is 0.0% cyan, 1.8% magenta, 11.2% yellow and 33.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 1.8%

Yellow 11.2%

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 #AAA797 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

#AAA797 #A7A59A #A4A39D #A1A1A1 #9D9EA4 #9A9CA7 #979AAA

Color vision previews

Compare how #AAA797 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.

#AAA696

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.

#ABA797

Tritanopia

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

#ADA5A2

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.

#AAA697

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.

#ABA797

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#ABA69B

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#A7A7A7

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.

#A8A79F

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 0.38643 B 0.30947

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 0.66460 G 0.65530 B 0.59835

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.39922 G 0.38695 B 0.31662

CIE xyY

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

x 0.329 y 0.352 Y 38.418

CMY

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

C % 33.333 M % 34.510 Y % 40.784

Binary RGB

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

10101010 10100111 10010111