HEX Color #008A3A (Forestgreen)

About #008A3A

When working with digital screens, the color #008A3A is rendered by mixing light. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Forestgreen. Its digital footprint relies on 0 parts red, 138 parts green, and 58 parts blue light.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 100% cyan and 0% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 145.2 degrees, it sits comfortably in the green spectrum.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. Because it is a dark color, it is generally recommended to use #000000 text. Strict adherence to these ratios protects visually impaired users from unreadable interfaces.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#008A3A

RGB0, 138, 58

HSL145.2°, 100.0%, 27.1%

CMYK100%, 0%, 58%, 46%

HSV145.2°, 100.0%, 54.1%

LAB50.1, -49.9, 33.6

XYZ9.9, 18.5, 7.1

Decimal35386

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#008A3A #8A004F

Analogous

#0A8A00 #008A7F

Triadic

#3A008A #8A3A00

Tetradic

#000A8A #8A004F #8A7F00

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#008A3A

#1C974F

#38A465

#55B17B

#71BE91

#8DCBA7

#AAD8BD

#C6E5D3

#E2F2E9

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#008A3A

#007A33

#006B2D

#005C26

#004C20

#003D19

#002E13

#001E0C

#000F06

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

4.47:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA Large

4.70:1

Text on #000000

AA

4.27:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA Large

3.99:1

Text on #0F172A

AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #008A3A; }

.text-color { color: #008A3A; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #008A3A; }

Similar Colors

Forestgreen

#228B22