#AAA89E

sRGB: 170 / 168 / 158

Radiant blossoms flourish beyond boundaries
Sacred blossoms echo between distant mountains
Rising tides transcend the limits of dreams

#AAA89E belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 168 green and 158 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 50.0° lands in the yellow region. Its 6.6% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 64.3% 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 (8.80:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 168, 158
HSL: 50.00°, 6.59%, 64.31%
HSV / HSB: 50.00°, 7.06%, 66.67%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 1.18%, 7.06%, 33.33%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 36.750, 39.020, 37.944
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 68.766, -1.109, 5.415
WCAG relative luminance: 0.39020
24-bit decimal: 11184286

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 #AAA89E 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: 8.80:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.39:1

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

#9EA0AA sits half a turn (180°) from #AAA89E 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.

#AAA89E #9EA0AA

Analogous

#AAA29E and #A6AA9E sit 30° to either side of #AAA89E. 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.

#AAA29E #AAA89E #A6AA9E

Triadic

#AAA89E, #9EAAA8 and #A89EAA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AAA89E #9EAAA8 #A89EAA

Split complementary

Start at #AAA89E and look across the wheel. #9EA6AA and #A29EAA sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AAA89E #9EA6AA #A29EAA

Square

Starting with #AAA89E, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #9EAAA2, #9EA0AA, then #AA9EA6. Across the square, #AAA89E pairs with #9EA0AA, and #9EAAA2 with #AA9EA6.

#AAA89E #9EAAA2 #9EA0AA #AA9EA6

Tetradic

#AAA89E and #9EA0AA are opposites, as are #A0AA9E and #A89EAA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AAA89E #A0AA9E #9EA0AA #A89EAA

Tints

Mixing #AAA89E with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBB9B1, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEEEEC, the mixture is 80% white.

#AAA89E #BBB9B1 #CCCBC5 #DDDCD8 #EEEEEC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AAA89E with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #88867E, keeps 80% of the original. By #222220, the mixture is 80% black.

#AAA89E #88867E #66655F #44433F #222220 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AAA89E with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A2A098, keeps 80% of the original. By #888886, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AAA89E #A2A098 #999892 #91908C #888886 #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

#AAA89E

RGB

rgb(170 168 158)

HSL

hsl(50.000 6.593% 64.314%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AAA89E;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AAA89E uses 170 red, 168 green and 158 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 65.9%

Blue 62.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AAA89E is 0.0% cyan, 1.2% magenta, 7.1% yellow and 33.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 1.2%

Yellow 7.1%

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 #AAA89E 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

#AAA89E #A8A7A0 #A6A5A2 #A4A4A4 #A2A3A6 #A0A1A8 #9EA0AA

Color vision previews

Compare how #AAA89E 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.

#AAA79D

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.

#ABA89E

Tritanopia

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

#ACA6A5

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.

#AAA89E

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.

#ABA89E

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AAA8A1

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.

#A9A8A3

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 0.39157 B 0.34191

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 0.66528 G 0.65909 B 0.62339

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.40013 G 0.39192 B 0.34654

CIE xyY

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

x 0.323 y 0.343 Y 39.020

CMY

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

C % 33.333 M % 34.118 Y % 38.039

Binary RGB

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

10101010 10101000 10011110