Information about #A8960E color
Basic facts about this digital color
A strongly colored sunny yellow, #A8960E occupies the middle of the lightness scale. Designers typically reach for tones like this for logos, highlights and anything that needs to be noticed first. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a near neighbor of Baby Poo (#AB9004). Slightly further away sit Yellowy Brown (#AE8B0C) and Strong Gold (#A89300).
The recipe behind #A8960E is rgb(168, 150, 14), with red as the dominant ingredient. On this background, black text reaches a 7.0:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 3.0:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #A8960E is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#A8960E color variations
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#A8960E color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#A8960E color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#A8960E color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
#A8960E color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#A8960E color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Split complementary
Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.
Tetradic
Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Square
Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.
Alternatives to #A8960E color
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Nearest named colors to #A8960E
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#AB9004
#AE8B0C
#A89300
#AB9A1C
#A88905
#A2A415
#AA8805
#B29700
#A5A502
#9B870C
#B79400
#A48111
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#A8960E
- RGB168, 150, 14
- CMYK0, 7, 60, 34
- CSSrgb(168, 150, 14)
- HSL53°, 85%, 36%
- HSL Precise52.987°, 84.615%, 35.686%
- HSV53°, 92%, 66%
- HSB53°, 92%, 66%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.659
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.588
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.055
- GLSLvec3(0.659, 0.588, 0.055)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.659, 0.588, 0.055, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.659, 0.588, 0.055)
- Percentage of Red in RGB65.9%
- Percentage of Green in RGB58.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB5.5%
- Color FamilyYellow
- Saturation FamilyHigh Saturation
- Lightness FamilyNeutral
- HEX IDA8960E
- DECIMAL ID11048462
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers12 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
