#AEF430

sRGB: 174 / 244 / 48

Radiant blossoms fracture ancient heavens
Unbridled forces breathe beneath silver clouds
Fleeting moments vanish without farewell

#AEF430 belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 174 red, 244 green and 48 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 81.4° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 89.9% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 57.3% 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 (15.78:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 174, 244, 48
HSL: 81.43°, 89.91%, 57.25%
HSV / HSB: 81.43°, 80.33%, 95.69%
CMYK (approx.): 28.69%, 0.00%, 80.33%, 4.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 50.338, 73.912, 14.411
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 88.881, -47.537, 78.913
WCAG relative luminance: 0.73913
24-bit decimal: 11465776

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 #AEF430 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: 15.78:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.33:1

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

#7630F4 sits half a turn (180°) from #AEF430 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.

#AEF430 #7630F4

Analogous

#F4D830 and #4CF430 sit 30° to either side of #AEF430. 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.

#F4D830 #AEF430 #4CF430

Triadic

#AEF430, #30AEF4 and #F430AE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AEF430 #30AEF4 #F430AE

Split complementary

Start at #AEF430 and look across the wheel. #304CF4 and #D830F4 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AEF430 #304CF4 #D830F4

Square

Starting with #AEF430, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #30F4D8, #7630F4, then #F4304C. Across the square, #AEF430 pairs with #7630F4, and #30F4D8 with #F4304C.

#AEF430 #30F4D8 #7630F4 #F4304C

Tetradic

#AEF430 and #7630F4 are opposites, as are #30F476 and #F430AE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AEF430 #30F476 #7630F4 #F430AE

Tints

Mixing #AEF430 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BEF659, keeps 80% of the original. By #EFFDD6, the mixture is 80% white.

#AEF430 #BEF659 #CEF883 #DFFBAC #EFFDD6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AEF430 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8BC326, keeps 80% of the original. By #23310A, the mixture is 80% black.

#AEF430 #8BC326 #68921D #466213 #23310A #000000

Tones

Mixing #AEF430 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A5DD40, keeps 80% of the original. By #899770, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AEF430 #A5DD40 #9CC650 #92AE60 #899770 #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

#AEF430

RGB

rgb(174 244 48)

HSL

hsl(81.429 89.908% 57.255%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AEF430;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AEF430 uses 174 red, 244 green and 48 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 68.2%

Green 95.7%

Blue 18.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AEF430 is 28.7% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 80.3% yellow and 4.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 28.7%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 80.3%

Black 4.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AAEE33. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #AE3 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AEF430 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #99FF33, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AAEE33 Nearest web-safe: #99FF33

Gradient to complement

#AEF430 #A5D351 #9BB371 #929292 #8971B3 #7F51D3 #7630F4

Color vision previews

Compare how #AEF430 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.

#FFE200

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.

#F7DE47

Tritanopia

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

#B4E9D1

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.

#E8E81C

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.

#E4E53F

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#B4EF89

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#DFDFDF

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.

#C9EAA7

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 0.90466 B 0.02956

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 0.74108 G 0.94938 B 0.34858

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.50873 G 0.88868 B 0.09964

CIE xyY

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

x 0.363 y 0.533 Y 73.912

CMY

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

C % 31.765 M % 4.314 Y % 81.176

Binary RGB

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

10101110 11110100 00110000