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

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.

Moss color values

#5A6B4Argb(90, 107, 74)

Color spaces of #5a6b4a
RGB	90	107	74
HSL	91°	18%	35%
HSV	91°	31%	42%
CMYK	0.16	0.00	0.31	0.58
XYZ	10.7100	13.1833	8.4576
Yxy	13.1833	0.3311	0.4075
CIE-Lab	43.0382	-12.9734	16.4552
Hunter Lab	36.3089	-10.8886	11.6054
OKLCH	50.4%	0.054	130.3°

#5A6B4A is 90 red, 107 green and 74 blue. Its green channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #666633.

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	01011010	01101011	01001010
Octal	132	153	112
Decimal	90	107	74
Hex	5A	6B	4A

#5a6b4a 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.

#5A6B4A
#516042
#48553B
#3E4A33
#36402C
#2D3525
#242A1D
#1B2016
#11150E
#080A07
#000000

#5a6b4a mixed with white

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

#5A6B4A
#6A795C
#7B886E
#8B9780
#9CA692
#ACB5A4
#BDC3B6
#CDD2C8
#DEE1DA
#EEF0EC
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red33.2%
Green39.5%
Blue27.3%

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

#5A6B4A
#6E5C7C

Triadic

#5A6B4A
#4D6783
#80585D

Analogous

#5A6B4A
#486E5A
#6B6541

Monochromatic

#050D00
#1C2A0C
#3A492A
#5A6B4A
#7C8E6C
#A1B490
#C7DAB5

#5a6b4a on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 3.64:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 5.77:1

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 #5a6b4a

color: #5a6b4a;
background-color: #5a6b4a;
border: 3px solid #5a6b4a;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #5a6b4a;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(90, 107, 74, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(50.4% 0.054 130.3);

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

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.

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