#AAA7AC

sRGB: 170 / 167 / 172

Radiant blossoms flourish beyond boundaries
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Brilliant stars awaken sleeping galaxies

#AAA7AC belongs to the violet family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 167 green and 172 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 276.0° lands in the violet region. Its 2.9% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 66.5% 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 (8.83:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 167, 172
HSL: 276.00°, 2.92%, 66.47%
HSV / HSB: 276.00°, 2.91%, 67.45%
CMYK (approx.): 1.16%, 2.91%, 0.00%, 32.55%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 37.841, 39.162, 44.597
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 68.869, 2.017, -2.193
WCAG relative luminance: 0.39162
24-bit decimal: 11184044

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 #AAA7AC 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: 8.83:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.38:1

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

#A9ACA7 sits half a turn (180°) from #AAA7AC 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.

#AAA7AC #A9ACA7

Analogous

#A7A7AC and #ACA7AC sit 30° to either side of #AAA7AC. 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.

#A7A7AC #AAA7AC #ACA7AC

Triadic

#AAA7AC, #ACAAA7 and #A7ACAA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AAA7AC #ACAAA7 #A7ACAA

Split complementary

Start at #AAA7AC and look across the wheel. #ACACA7 and #A7ACA7 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AAA7AC #ACACA7 #A7ACA7

Square

Starting with #AAA7AC, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #ACA7A7, #A9ACA7, then #A7ACAC. Across the square, #AAA7AC pairs with #A9ACA7, and #ACA7A7 with #A7ACAC.

#AAA7AC #ACA7A7 #A9ACA7 #A7ACAC

Tetradic

#AAA7AC and #A9ACA7 are opposites, as are #ACA7A9 and #A7ACAA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AAA7AC #ACA7A9 #A9ACA7 #A7ACAA

Tints

Mixing #AAA7AC with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBB9BD, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEEDEE, the mixture is 80% white.

#AAA7AC #BBB9BD #CCCACD #DDDCDE #EEEDEE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AAA7AC with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #88868A, keeps 80% of the original. By #222122, the mixture is 80% black.

#AAA7AC #88868A #666467 #444345 #222122 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AAA7AC with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A29FA3, keeps 80% of the original. By #888889, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AAA7AC #A29FA3 #99979A #919092 #888889 #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

#AAA7AC

RGB

rgb(170 167 172)

HSL

hsl(276.000 2.924% 66.471%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AAA7AC;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AAA7AC uses 170 red, 167 green and 172 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 65.5%

Blue 67.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AAA7AC is 1.2% cyan, 2.9% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 32.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 1.2%

Magenta 2.9%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 32.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AAAAAA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #AAA in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AAA7AC when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #999999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#AAA7AC #AAA8AB #AAA9AA #AAAAAA #A9AAA9 #A9ABA8 #A9ACA7

Color vision previews

Compare how #AAA7AC 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.

#A6A8AC

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.

#A7A8AC

Tritanopia

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

#AAA8A9

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.

#A8A8AC

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.

#A8A8AC

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AAA7AB

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#A8A8A8

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.

#A9A8AA

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 0.41254

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 0.67298

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.39922 G 0.38695 B 0.41047

CIE xyY

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

x 0.311 y 0.322 Y 39.162

CMY

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

C % 33.333 M % 34.510 Y % 32.549

Binary RGB

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

10101010 10100111 10101100