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#66BB55

#66BB55

Greens · #6b5 is the three-digit shorthand for #66BB55. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#66BB55
RGB102, 187, 85
HSL110°, 43%, 53%
CMYK45%, 0%, 55%, 27%
Relative luminance0.39

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

2.39:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

8.8:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#AA54BB

Analogous

#98BB54#54BB76

Triadic

#5465BB#BB5465

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 #6b5 and #66BB55 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #6b5 expands to #66BB55. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #66BB55?

Black text. Contrast against white is 2.39:1 and against black 8.8:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #66BB55?

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

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