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#229922

#229922

Greens · #292 is the three-digit shorthand for #229922. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#229922
RGB34, 153, 34
HSL120°, 64%, 37%
CMYK78%, 0%, 78%, 40%
Relative luminance0.23

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

3.72:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

5.65:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#9B229B

Analogous

#5E9B22#229B5E

Triadic

#22229B#9B2222

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

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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 #292 and #229922 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #292 expands to #229922. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #229922?

Black text. Contrast against white is 3.72:1 and against black 5.65:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #229922?

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

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