#a8b99cIt is a bright grayish chartreuse green color having an approximate luminance of 73%. It has a hue value of 95° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Laurel Green, Cambridge Blue, Dark Sea Green, Ash Gray, Eton Blue, Sage, Opal, Morning Blue, Olivine and Artichoke. 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 #a8b99c to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (168, 185, 156)
#a8b99c
hsl (95.2, 17.2%, 66.9%)
hsv (95.2, 15.7%, 72.5%)
lab (73.2, -11.2, 12.8)
xyz (39.5, 45.4, 38.1)
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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 #a8b99c 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 bright 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, Ash Gray, Cambridge Blue, Opal, Beige, Eggshell, Alabaster, Platinum, Mint Cream, Baby Powder, Cultured and Isabelline.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a bright 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 Xanadu, Artichoke, Russian Green, Morning Blue, Ebony, Feldgrau, Rifle Green, Granite Gray, Black Olive, Pine Tree, Kombu Green, Eerie Black, Black Chocolate, Dark Jungle Green and Charleston 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 bright 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 Laurel Green, Ash Gray, Cambridge Blue, Opal, Silver Chalice, Gray (X11 Gray), Silver and Silver Sand.
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 and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rifle Green, Olive Drab 7, Sage, Khaki (Web), Kombu Green, Laurel Green, Cambridge Blue, English Green, Brunswick Green and Morning 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 violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Xanadu, Fern Green, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac Luster and Glossy Grape.
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, red and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Xanadu, Fern Green, Eggplant, Rose Ebony, Tuscany, Pastel Pink, Charcoal, Indigo Dye, Pewter Blue and Cadet Grey.
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, violet and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Xanadu, Fern Green, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Dark Slate Gray, Dark Sky Blue, Pewter Blue, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac Luster, Glossy Grape, Dark Liver (horses), Rose Ebony, Tuscany and Silver Pink.
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