Moss color: hex codes, shades and palettes

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

A muted yellow-green, the colour of dry moss rather than wet. Less grey than sage and darker than olive.

Moss hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#5A6B4A
HEX
#5A6B4A
RGB
rgb(90, 107, 74)
HSL
hsl(91, 18%, 35%)
OKLCH
oklch(50.4% 0.054 130.3)
On white
5.77:1
On black
3.64:1

Shades of moss

Eleven 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.

Contrast and readability

Moss on white measures 5.77:1 and on black 3.64:1. 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 5.19:1.

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.

Related colors:sage, forest green, pine, juniper. See every shade on the colors index.