Juniper color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around juniper. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

A mid green-grey with blue in it. Sits between sage and teal, and it is the green that appears in most muted "forest" palettes.

Juniper hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#4A6A5E

HEX: #4A6A5E
RGB: rgb(74, 106, 94)
HSL: hsl(158, 18%, 35%)
OKLCH: oklch(49.6% 0.042 169.3)
On white: 5.98:1
On black: 3.51:1

Shades of juniper

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Juniper color values

#4A6A5Ergb(74, 106, 94)

Color spaces of #4a6a5e
RGB	74	106	94
HSL	158°	18%	35%
HSV	158°	30%	42%
CMYK	0.30	0.00	0.11	0.58
XYZ	9.9978	12.5716	12.4873
Yxy	12.5716	0.2852	0.3586
CIE-Lab	42.1105	-14.4511	3.0205
Hunter Lab	35.4564	-11.7164	3.9384
OKLCH	49.6%	0.042	169.3°

#4A6A5E is 74 red, 106 green and 94 blue. Its green channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #336666.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	01001010	01101010	01011110
Octal	112	152	136
Decimal	74	106	94
Hex	4A	6A	5E

#4a6a5e mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#4A6A5E
#425F54
#3B544B
#334A41
#2C3F38
#25352F
#1D2A25
#161F1C
#0E1512
#070A09
#000000

#4a6a5e mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#4A6A5E
#5C786E
#6E877E
#80968E
#92A59E
#A4B4AE
#B6C3BE
#C8D2CE
#DAE1DE
#ECF0EE
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red27.0%
Green38.7%
Blue34.3%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#4A6A5E
#755866

Triadic

#4A6A5E
#615E79
#765B4D

Analogous

#4A6A5E
#456A6B
#566851

Monochromatic

#000C07
#092920
#29493D
#4A6A5E
#6C8D81
#90B2A5
#B6D9CB

#4a6a5e on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 3.51:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 5.98:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #4a6a5e

color: #4a6a5e;
background-color: #4a6a5e;
border: 3px solid #4a6a5e;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #4a6a5e;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(74, 106, 94, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(49.6% 0.042 169.3);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Juniper on white measures 5.98:1 and on black 3.51:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.14:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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