#EEB397

sRGB: 238 / 179 / 151

Infinite horizons fracture ancient heavens
Restless constellations flicker through endless evenings
Rising tides embrace the coming dawn

#EEB397 belongs to the orange family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 238 red, 179 green and 151 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 19.3° lands in the orange region. Its 71.9% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 76.3% 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 (11.53:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 238, 179, 151
HSL: 19.31°, 71.90%, 76.27%
HSV / HSB: 19.31°, 36.55%, 93.33%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 24.79%, 36.55%, 6.67%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 56.964, 52.653, 36.442
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 77.670, 17.810, 22.650
WCAG relative luminance: 0.52652
24-bit decimal: 15643543

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 #EEB397 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: 11.53:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.82:1

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

#97D2EE sits half a turn (180°) from #EEB397 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.

#EEB397 #97D2EE

Analogous

#EE97A7 and #EEDF97 sit 30° to either side of #EEB397. 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.

#EE97A7 #EEB397 #EEDF97

Triadic

#EEB397, #97EEB3 and #B397EE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#EEB397 #97EEB3 #B397EE

Split complementary

Start at #EEB397 and look across the wheel. #97EEDF and #97A6EE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#EEB397 #97EEDF #97A6EE

Square

Starting with #EEB397, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #A6EE97, #97D2EE, then #DF97EE. Across the square, #EEB397 pairs with #97D2EE, and #A6EE97 with #DF97EE.

#EEB397 #A6EE97 #97D2EE #DF97EE

Tetradic

#EEB397 and #97D2EE are opposites, as are #D2EE97 and #B397EE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#EEB397 #D2EE97 #97D2EE #B397EE

Tints

Mixing #EEB397 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #F1C2AC, keeps 80% of the original. By #FCF0EA, the mixture is 80% white.

#EEB397 #F1C2AC #F5D1C1 #F8E1D5 #FCF0EA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #EEB397 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BE8F79, keeps 80% of the original. By #30241E, the mixture is 80% black.

#EEB397 #BE8F79 #8F6B5B #5F483C #30241E #000000

Tones

Mixing #EEB397 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D8A992, keeps 80% of the original. By #968A85, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#EEB397 #D8A992 #C29F8E #AC9489 #968A85 #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

#EEB397

RGB

rgb(238 179 151)

HSL

hsl(19.310 71.901% 76.275%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #EEB397;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#EEB397 uses 238 red, 179 green and 151 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 93.3%

Green 70.2%

Blue 59.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #EEB397 is 0.0% cyan, 24.8% magenta, 36.6% yellow and 6.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 24.8%

Yellow 36.6%

Black 6.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #EEBB99. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #EB9 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #EEB397 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #FFCC99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #EEBB99 Nearest web-safe: #FFCC99

Gradient to complement

#EEB397 #E0B8A6 #D1BDB4 #C3C3C3 #B4C8D1 #A6CDE0 #97D2EE

Color vision previews

Compare how #EEB397 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.

#C2B995

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.

#D0C597

Tritanopia

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

#FDA9AB

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.

#D4B896

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.

#D9BF97

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#F0B19F

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#C0C0C0

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.

#D9BAAD

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 0.85499 G 0.45079 B 0.30947

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 0.89788 G 0.71127 B 0.60889

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.78323 G 0.46420 B 0.32902

CIE xyY

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

x 0.390 y 0.360 Y 52.653

CMY

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

C % 6.667 M % 29.804 Y % 40.784

Binary RGB

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

11101110 10110011 10010111