#8c9970
It is a grayish chartreuse green color having an approximate luminance of 61%. It has a hue value of 79° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Artichoke, Turtle Green, Moss Green, Asparagus, Russian Green, Laurel Green, Olivine, Xanadu, Morning Blue and Dark Sea Green. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color #8c9970
to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (140, 153, 112)
#8c9970
hsl (79, 16.7%, 52%)
hsv (79, 26.8%, 60%)
lab (61.2, -12, 20.1)
xyz (25.1, 29.5, 19.7)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #8c9970 respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish chartreuse green color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Laurel Green, Sage, Artichoke, Cambridge Blue, Ash Gray, Eggshell, Alabaster, Bone, Beige, Isabelline, Baby Powder and Platinum.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish chartreuse green color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Ebony, Dark Olive Green, Fern Green, Feldgrau, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Pine Tree, Black Olive, Olive Drab 7, Black Chocolate, Eerie Black, Smoky Black and Dark Jungle Green.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a grayish chartreuse green color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Artichoke, Moss Green, Turtle Green, Xanadu, Morning Blue, Laurel Green, Spanish Gray, Middle Grey, Old Silver and Battleship Grey.
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains warm and cold colors. There are variants of yellow, orange and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Olive Drab 7, Field Drab, Sand, Ecru, Army Green, Rifle Green, Laurel Green, Olivine, Brunswick Green, English Green, Dark Sea Green and Eton Blue.
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of green and blue colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Fern Green, Dark Olive Green, Cyber Grape, English Violet, Blue Bell and Maximum Blue Purple.
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of green, rose, cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Fern Green, Dark Olive Green, Wine Dregs, Old Mauve, Puce, Charm Pink, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Blue Sapphire, Dark Sky Blue and Aero.
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of green, cyan, blue and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Fern Green, Dark Olive Green, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Deep Jungle Green, Cadet Blue, Maximum Blue Green, Cyber Grape, English Violet, Blue Bell, Maximum Blue Purple, Bole, Caput Mortuum, Pastel Pink and Tuscany.
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