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#AABB44

#AABB44

Yellows · #ab4 is the three-digit shorthand for #AABB44. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#AABB44
RGB170, 187, 68
HSL69°, 47%, 50%
CMYK9%, 0%, 64%, 27%
Relative luminance0.45

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

2.12:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

9.9:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#5644BB

Analogous

#BB9144#6EBB44

Triadic

#44A9BB#BB44A9

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 #ab4 and #AABB44 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #ab4 expands to #AABB44. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #AABB44?

Black text. Contrast against white is 2.12:1 and against black 9.9:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #AABB44?

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

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