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#228855

#228855

Greens · #285 is the three-digit shorthand for #228855. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#228855
RGB34, 136, 85
HSL150°, 60%, 33%
CMYK75%, 0%, 38%, 47%
Relative luminance0.19

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

4.45:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

4.72:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#872254

Analogous

#228722#228787

Triadic

#542287#875422

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #285 and #228855 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #285 expands to #228855. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #228855?

Black text. Contrast against white is 4.45:1 and against black 4.72:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #228855?

Viridian. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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