#C19400

sRGB: 193 / 148 / 0

Celestial flames dissolve into silence
Shimmering rivers breathe beneath silver clouds
Lost whispers vanish without farewell

#C19400 belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 193 red, 148 green and 0 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 46.0° lands in the yellow region. Its 100.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 37.8% 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 (7.50:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 193, 148, 0
HSL: 46.01°, 100.00%, 37.84%
HSV / HSB: 46.01°, 100.00%, 75.69%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 23.32%, 100.00%, 24.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 32.581, 32.518, 4.561
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 63.769, 6.099, 68.080
WCAG relative luminance: 0.32517
24-bit decimal: 12686336

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 #C19400 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: 7.50:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.80:1

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

#002DC1 sits half a turn (180°) from #C19400 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.

#C19400 #002DC1

Analogous

#C13300 and #8EC100 sit 30° to either side of #C19400. 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.

#C13300 #C19400 #8EC100

Triadic

#C19400, #00C194 and #9400C1 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#C19400 #00C194 #9400C1

Split complementary

Start at #C19400 and look across the wheel. #008DC1 and #3400C1 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#C19400 #008DC1 #3400C1

Square

Starting with #C19400, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #00C134, #002DC1, then #C1008D. Across the square, #C19400 pairs with #002DC1, and #00C134 with #C1008D.

#C19400 #00C134 #002DC1 #C1008D

Tetradic

#C19400 and #002DC1 are opposites, as are #2DC100 and #9400C1. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#C19400 #2DC100 #002DC1 #9400C1

Tints

Mixing #C19400 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CDA933, keeps 80% of the original. By #F3EACC, the mixture is 80% white.

#C19400 #CDA933 #DABF66 #E6D499 #F3EACC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #C19400 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9A7600, keeps 80% of the original. By #271E00, the mixture is 80% black.

#C19400 #9A7600 #745900 #4D3B00 #271E00 #000000

Tones

Mixing #C19400 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B4901A, keeps 80% of the original. By #8D8466, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#C19400 #B4901A #A78C33 #9A884D #8D8466 #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

#C19400

RGB

rgb(193 148 0)

HSL

hsl(46.010 100.000% 37.843%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #C19400;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#C19400 uses 193 red, 148 green and 0 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 75.7%

Green 58.0%

Blue 0.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #C19400 is 0.0% cyan, 23.3% magenta, 100.0% yellow and 24.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 23.3%

Yellow 100.0%

Black 24.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BB9900. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #B90 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #C19400 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC9900, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BB9900 Nearest web-safe: #CC9900

Gradient to complement

#C19400 #A18320 #817240 #616161 #404F81 #203EA1 #002DC1

Color vision previews

Compare how #C19400 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.

#A89300

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.

#B39F13

Tritanopia

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

#D2857E

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.

#B29500

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.

#B79B08

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C4904E

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#9A9A9A

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.

#AF9770

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 0.53328 G 0.29614 B 0.00000

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 0.72951 G 0.58738 B 0.19161

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.49118 G 0.30401 B 0.03055

CIE xyY

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

x 0.468 y 0.467 Y 32.518

CMY

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

C % 24.314 M % 41.961 Y % 100.000

Binary RGB

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

11000001 10010100 00000000