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#af9e8f color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #af9e8f.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#af9e8f packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: af red, 9e green, 8f blue.

What RGB means

Red 175, green 158, blue 143 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 28° (red), saturation 17%, lightness 62%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (71.0%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text2.59:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text8.11:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For white text

#847466

4.5:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #fcf6f2;
  --primary-100: #f3ebe5;
  --primary-200: #e2d7cd;
  --primary-300: #ccbeb2;
  --primary-400: #ae9e91;
  --primary-500: #af9e8f;
  --primary-600: #746457;
  --primary-700: #5d5043;
  --primary-800: #4b3e34;
  --primary-900: #3c3229;
  --primary-950: #221c16;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #af9e8f, #8e9faf);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #af9e8f;
background-color: #af9e8f;
:root {
  --color-primary: #af9e8f;
}
color: rgb(175 158 143);
color: oklch(71% 0.0293 63.78);
<div class="bg-[#af9e8f]">…</div>