#C1C19B

sRGB: 193 / 193 / 155

Celestial flames dissolve into silence
Majestic waterfalls disappear beneath stillness
Rising tides defy the passing ages

#C1C19B belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 193 red, 193 green and 155 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 60.0° lands in the yellow region. Its 23.5% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 68.2% 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 (11.37:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 193, 193, 155
HSL: 60.00°, 23.46%, 68.24%
HSV / HSB: 60.00°, 19.69%, 75.69%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 0.00%, 19.69%, 24.31%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 46.977, 51.844, 38.544
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 77.188, -6.346, 19.198
WCAG relative luminance: 0.51844
24-bit decimal: 12698011

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 #C1C19B 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: 11.37:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.85:1

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

#9B9BC1 sits half a turn (180°) from #C1C19B 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.

#C1C19B #9B9BC1

Analogous

#C1AE9B and #AEC19B sit 30° to either side of #C1C19B. 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.

#C1AE9B #C1C19B #AEC19B

Triadic

#C1C19B, #9BC1C1 and #C19BC1 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#C1C19B #9BC1C1 #C19BC1

Split complementary

Start at #C1C19B and look across the wheel. #9BAEC1 and #AE9BC1 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#C1C19B #9BAEC1 #AE9BC1

Square

Starting with #C1C19B, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #9BC1AE, #9B9BC1, then #C19BAE. Across the square, #C1C19B pairs with #9B9BC1, and #9BC1AE with #C19BAE.

#C1C19B #9BC1AE #9B9BC1 #C19BAE

Tetradic

#C1C19B and #9B9BC1 are opposites, as are #9BC19B and #C19BC1. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#C1C19B #9BC19B #9B9BC1 #C19BC1

Tints

Mixing #C1C19B with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CDCDAF, keeps 80% of the original. By #F3F3EB, the mixture is 80% white.

#C1C19B #CDCDAF #DADAC3 #E6E6D7 #F3F3EB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #C1C19B with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9A9A7C, keeps 80% of the original. By #27271F, the mixture is 80% black.

#C1C19B #9A9A7C #74745D #4D4D3E #27271F #000000

Tones

Mixing #C1C19B with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B4B496, keeps 80% of the original. By #8D8D85, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#C1C19B #B4B496 #A7A790 #9A9A8B #8D8D85 #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

#C1C19B

RGB

rgb(193 193 155)

HSL

hsl(60.000 23.457% 68.235%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #C1C19B;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#C1C19B uses 193 red, 193 green and 155 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 75.7%

Green 75.7%

Blue 60.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #C1C19B is 0.0% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 19.7% yellow and 24.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 19.7%

Black 24.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBBB99. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BB9 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #C1C19B when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCC99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBBB99 Nearest web-safe: #CCCC99

Gradient to complement

#C1C19B #BBBBA1 #B4B4A8 #AEAEAE #A8A8B4 #A1A1BB #9B9BC1

Color vision previews

Compare how #C1C19B 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.

#C8BE99

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.

#C8BF9C

Tritanopia

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

#C7BCB7

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.

#C6BF9A

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.

#C6C09C

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C2BFA6

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#BFBFBF

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.

#C0C0AE

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 0.53328 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 0.75686 G 0.75686 B 0.62309

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.53328 G 0.53328 B 0.34617

CIE xyY

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

x 0.342 y 0.377 Y 51.844

CMY

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

C % 24.314 M % 24.314 Y % 39.216

Binary RGB

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

11000001 11000001 10011011