Triadic colour scheme
Three hues evenly spaced around the wheel, balanced in lightness.
#eab308
A light, moderately saturated chartreuse. Closest CSS name: `orange`.
- Hex
- #eab308
- RGB
- rgb(234 179 8)
- HSL
- hsl(45.4 93.4% 47.5%)
- OKLCH
- oklch(0.795 0.162 86)
- CMYK
- cmyk(0% 23.5% 96.58% 8.24%)
- Nearest name
- orange
Readable text
White text
1.92:1
Black text
10.95:1
Use black text. Passes AA for normal text: yes · AAA: yes · AA for large text: yes
Worth knowing
Worth knowing
9 derived colours are outside sRGB
Rotating hue at this chroma produces colours a normal screen cannot display, so they have been clipped to the nearest sRGB colour. The hex values shown are therefore not exactly what the maths asked for, and the harmony will look slightly less even than it should.
Fix: Lower the chroma of the input colour before deriving harmonies, or accept the clipped values as an approximation.
Note
CMYK here is a naive conversion
CMYK has no fixed meaning without an output profile — the same numbers print differently on different presses and papers. The value shown is the standard arithmetic conversion, not a colour-managed one.
Fix: For print work, convert in software with the press profile applied.
Complementary — the opposite hue
complementary
#8bb7ff
clipped to sRGB
Analogous — neighbouring hues
analogous −30°
#ff9d47
clipped to sRGB
analogous +30°
#b7c83a
Triadic — evenly spaced
triadic +120°
#00d8ef
clipped to sRGB
triadic +240°
#f195f3
Split-complementary — softer opposites
split-complementary +150°
#2ccaff
clipped to sRGB
split-complementary +210°
#c6a4ff
clipped to sRGB
Monochromatic — one hue, five lightnesses
lightness 0.25
#420f00
clipped to sRGB
lightness 0.4
#6d3b00
clipped to sRGB
lightness 0.55
#9b6700
clipped to sRGB
lightness 0.7
#cb9500
clipped to sRGB
lightness 0.85
#fcc532
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