#AE779B

sRGB: 174 / 119 / 155

Radiant blossoms fracture ancient heavens
Hidden pathways unfold through ancient forests
Rising tides defy the passing ages

#AE779B belongs to the rose family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 174 red, 119 green and 155 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 320.7° lands in the rose region. Its 25.3% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 57.5% 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 (5.91:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 174, 119, 155
HSL: 320.73°, 25.35%, 57.45%
HSV / HSB: 320.73°, 31.61%, 68.24%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 31.61%, 10.92%, 31.76%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 29.967, 24.560, 34.173
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 56.644, 27.191, -10.659
WCAG relative luminance: 0.24559
24-bit decimal: 11433883

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 #AE779B 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: 5.91:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text: 3.55:1

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

#77AE8A sits half a turn (180°) from #AE779B 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.

#AE779B #77AE8A

Analogous

#A677AE and #AE777F sit 30° to either side of #AE779B. 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.

#A677AE #AE779B #AE777F

Triadic

#AE779B, #9BAE77 and #779BAE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AE779B #9BAE77 #779BAE

Split complementary

Start at #AE779B and look across the wheel. #7FAE77 and #77AEA6 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AE779B #7FAE77 #77AEA6

Square

Starting with #AE779B, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #AEA677, #77AE8A, then #777FAE. Across the square, #AE779B pairs with #77AE8A, and #AEA677 with #777FAE.

#AE779B #AEA677 #77AE8A #777FAE

Tetradic

#AE779B and #77AE8A are opposites, as are #AE8A77 and #779BAE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AE779B #AE8A77 #77AE8A #779BAE

Tints

Mixing #AE779B with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BE92AF, keeps 80% of the original. By #EFE4EB, the mixture is 80% white.

#AE779B #BE92AF #CEADC3 #DFC9D7 #EFE4EB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AE779B with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8B5F7C, keeps 80% of the original. By #23181F, the mixture is 80% black.

#AE779B #8B5F7C #68475D #46303E #23181F #000000

Tones

Mixing #AE779B with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A57996, keeps 80% of the original. By #897E85, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AE779B #A57996 #9C7B90 #927C8B #897E85 #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

#AE779B

RGB

rgb(174 119 155)

HSL

hsl(320.727 25.346% 57.451%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AE779B;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AE779B uses 174 red, 119 green and 155 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 68.2%

Green 46.7%

Blue 60.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AE779B is 0.0% cyan, 31.6% magenta, 10.9% yellow and 31.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 31.6%

Yellow 10.9%

Black 31.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AA7799. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #A79 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AE779B when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #996699, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AA7799 Nearest web-safe: #996699

Gradient to complement

#AE779B #A58098 #9C8995 #939393 #899C90 #80A58D #77AE8A

Color vision previews

Compare how #AE779B 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.

#79839C

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.

#868B99

Tritanopia

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

#B47884

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.

#8F809B

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.

#93859A

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AE7993

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#888888

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.

#9C8092

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 0.42327 G 0.18447 B 0.32778

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 0.65063 G 0.47589 B 0.60042

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.38087 G 0.19240 B 0.31903

CIE xyY

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

x 0.338 y 0.277 Y 24.560

CMY

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

C % 31.765 M % 53.333 Y % 39.216

Binary RGB

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

10101110 01110111 10011011