#AEA682

sRGB: 174 / 166 / 130

Radiant blossoms fracture ancient heavens
Sacred blossoms blossom beneath falling stars
Golden visions disappear into mist

#AEA682 belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 174 red, 166 green and 130 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 49.1° lands in the yellow region. Its 21.4% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 59.6% 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 (8.58:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 174, 166, 130
HSL: 49.09°, 21.36%, 59.61%
HSV / HSB: 49.09°, 25.29%, 68.24%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 4.60%, 25.29%, 31.76%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 35.120, 37.883, 26.582
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 67.934, -2.994, 19.724
WCAG relative luminance: 0.37883
24-bit decimal: 11445890

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 #AEA682 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: 8.58:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.45:1

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

#828AAE sits half a turn (180°) from #AEA682 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.

#AEA682 #828AAE

Analogous

#AE9082 and #A0AE82 sit 30° to either side of #AEA682. 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.

#AE9082 #AEA682 #A0AE82

Triadic

#AEA682, #82AEA6 and #A682AE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AEA682 #82AEA6 #A682AE

Split complementary

Start at #AEA682 and look across the wheel. #82A0AE and #9082AE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AEA682 #82A0AE #9082AE

Square

Starting with #AEA682, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #82AE90, #828AAE, then #AE82A0. Across the square, #AEA682 pairs with #828AAE, and #82AE90 with #AE82A0.

#AEA682 #82AE90 #828AAE #AE82A0

Tetradic

#AEA682 and #828AAE are opposites, as are #8AAE82 and #A682AE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AEA682 #8AAE82 #828AAE #A682AE

Tints

Mixing #AEA682 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BEB89B, keeps 80% of the original. By #EFEDE6, the mixture is 80% white.

#AEA682 #BEB89B #CECAB4 #DFDBCD #EFEDE6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AEA682 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8B8568, keeps 80% of the original. By #23211A, the mixture is 80% black.

#AEA682 #8B8568 #68644E #464234 #23211A #000000

Tones

Mixing #AEA682 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A59E82, keeps 80% of the original. By #898880, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AEA682 #A59E82 #9C9781 #928F81 #898880 #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

#AEA682

RGB

rgb(174 166 130)

HSL

hsl(49.091 21.359% 59.608%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AEA682;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AEA682 uses 174 red, 166 green and 130 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 68.2%

Green 65.1%

Blue 51.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AEA682 is 0.0% cyan, 4.6% magenta, 25.3% yellow and 31.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 4.6%

Yellow 25.3%

Black 31.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AAAA88. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #AA8 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AEA682 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #999999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AAAA88 Nearest web-safe: #999999

Gradient to complement

#AEA682 #A7A189 #9F9D91 #989898 #91939F #898FA7 #828AAE

Color vision previews

Compare how #AEA682 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.

#ADA480

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.

#B0A783

Tritanopia

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

#B5A19C

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.

#AEA581

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.

#AFA683

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AFA48C

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.

#AAA695

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 0.38133 B 0.22323

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 0.67692 G 0.65205 B 0.52518

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.41582 G 0.38272 B 0.23809

CIE xyY

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

x 0.353 y 0.380 Y 37.883

CMY

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

C % 31.765 M % 34.902 Y % 49.020

Binary RGB

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

10101110 10100110 10000010