#AEA596

sRGB: 174 / 165 / 150

Radiant blossoms fracture ancient heavens
Sacred blossoms wander across quiet meadows
Rising tides find forgotten pathways

#AEA596 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 174 red, 165 green and 150 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 37.5° lands in the orange region. Its 12.9% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 63.5% 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 (8.62:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 174, 165, 150
HSL: 37.50°, 12.90%, 63.53%
HSV / HSB: 37.50°, 13.79%, 68.24%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 5.17%, 13.79%, 31.76%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 36.414, 38.111, 34.293
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 68.102, 0.637, 8.939
WCAG relative luminance: 0.38111
24-bit decimal: 11445654

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 #AEA596 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: 8.62:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.44:1

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

#969FAE sits half a turn (180°) from #AEA596 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.

#AEA596 #969FAE

Analogous

#AE9996 and #ABAE96 sit 30° to either side of #AEA596. 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.

#AE9996 #AEA596 #ABAE96

Triadic

#AEA596, #96AEA5 and #A596AE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AEA596 #96AEA5 #A596AE

Split complementary

Start at #AEA596 and look across the wheel. #96ABAE and #9996AE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AEA596 #96ABAE #9996AE

Square

Starting with #AEA596, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #96AE99, #969FAE, then #AE96AB. Across the square, #AEA596 pairs with #969FAE, and #96AE99 with #AE96AB.

#AEA596 #96AE99 #969FAE #AE96AB

Tetradic

#AEA596 and #969FAE are opposites, as are #9FAE96 and #A596AE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AEA596 #9FAE96 #969FAE #A596AE

Tints

Mixing #AEA596 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BEB7AB, keeps 80% of the original. By #EFEDEA, the mixture is 80% white.

#AEA596 #BEB7AB #CEC9C0 #DFDBD5 #EFEDEA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AEA596 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8B8478, keeps 80% of the original. By #23211E, the mixture is 80% black.

#AEA596 #8B8478 #68635A #46423C #23211E #000000

Tones

Mixing #AEA596 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A59E92, keeps 80% of the original. By #898784, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AEA596 #A59E92 #9C968D #928F89 #898784 #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

#AEA596

RGB

rgb(174 165 150)

HSL

hsl(37.500 12.903% 63.529%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AEA596;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AEA596 uses 174 red, 165 green and 150 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 68.2%

Green 64.7%

Blue 58.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AEA596 is 0.0% cyan, 5.2% magenta, 13.8% yellow and 31.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 5.2%

Yellow 13.8%

Black 31.8%

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 #AEA596 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

#AEA596 #AAA49A #A6A39E #A2A2A2 #9EA1A6 #9AA0AA #969FAE

Color vision previews

Compare how #AEA596 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.

#A9A595

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.

#ABA796

Tritanopia

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

#B3A2A1

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.

#ABA596

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.

#ACA696

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AFA49A

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#A6A6A6

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.

#AAA59E

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 0.37626 B 0.30499

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 0.67626 G 0.64827 B 0.59450

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.41492 G 0.37782 B 0.31217

CIE xyY

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

x 0.335 y 0.350 Y 38.111

CMY

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

C % 31.765 M % 35.294 Y % 41.176

Binary RGB

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

10101110 10100101 10010110