Closest web-safe match: #999933

Color Details and Palettes for #8A9A44

Details about the color Chorus of Frogs#8A9A44

Conversions, palettes, contrast & design ideas for this color.

Lime family Cool WCAG ink: dark
HEX #8A9A44 RGB rgb(138, 154, 68) HSL hsl(71, 39%, 44%) CMYK cmyk(10%, 0%, 56%, 40%)

Color profile

About Color Hex #8A9A44

#8A9A44 is a cool color from the Lime family, closest in name to “Chorus of Frogs”. In RGB it is rgb(138, 154, 68); in HSL, hsl(71, 39%, 44%).

The color Chorus of Frogs, with hexadecimal code #8a9a44, resides within the green color family, the hue most connected to nature, growth, and renewal. Green soothes the eye more than any other color, making it ideal for wellness, sustainability, and financial brands. Additionally, it evokes emotions such as Freshness, Harmony, Growth, Youthfulness and Renewal. Green is often linked to nature and growth universally, and in some cultures, it symbolizes fertility, renewal, and even immortality. In Islam, green holds significant religious meaning. With a moderate saturation of 39%, it has a softened, muted quality that lends sophistication and works well for backgrounds and secondary elements. With a mid-range lightness of 44%, it offers excellent versatility—readable as text on light backgrounds and visible as an element on dark ones. This color is ideal for designs that aim to express Freshness, Harmony, Growth, Youthfulness, or Renewal. It can be effectively used in web design, branding, and marketing materials to attract attention and convey specific messages.

Key facts

RGB 138, 154, 68 red · green · blue HSL 71° 39% 44% hue · sat · light HSV 71° 56% 60% design-app pickers CMYK 10 0 56 40 print inks, % Luminance 0.289 0 dark → 1 light On black 6.79:1 ✓ AA contrast ratio On white 3.09:1 ✕ AA contrast ratio Web-safe #999933 closest web-safe Best text black ideal foreground Character Vivid cool · lime family

The story of this color

History, Usage, Psychology & Design Ideas for #8A9A44

Chorus of Frogs (#8A9A44) belongs to the Lime color family.

With moderate saturation and balanced lightness, this muted tone feels sophisticated and understated. Muted hues like this excel in editorial design, professional portfolios, and interior spaces that seek calm refinement.

Historical Background

Lime green emerged as a popular color in the mid-20th century, fueled by psychedelic art and pop culture. The color takes its name from the citrus fruit, and its bright, acidic quality made it a staple of 1960s mod fashion and 1990s rave culture. In nature, lime green appears in new spring foliage, signaling the first stages of growth after winter dormancy.

Design & Usage Tips

Lime green projects youthful energy and works well for sports, fitness, and tech brands targeting younger demographics. It pairs effectively with dark purple or navy for bold complementary schemes, or with white for a fresh, clean look. Use lime sparingly as an accent—it can overwhelm when used as a dominant color.

Sitting on the cool side of the spectrum (hue 71°), it promotes a feeling of calm distance and intellectual clarity, which is why cool hues dominate corporate identities, healthcare design, and productivity tools. At 39% saturation, the color has a muted, sophisticated quality that pairs well with bolder accents. It works as a background, a border, or a secondary element in layered compositions.

Psychological Impact

Lime stimulates vitality, freshness, and excitement. It sits at the boundary of yellow's optimism and green's natural calm, creating a unique sense of dynamic growth. Lime is particularly effective in contexts where energy and eco-consciousness intersect.

With a mid-range lightness of 44%, this tone is highly versatile: dark enough to serve as body text on white, yet light enough to stand out on charcoal or navy backgrounds.

Creative Design Ideas

Use lime as a highlight color for progress bars, success states, and achievement badges in gamified interfaces. Combine lime with matte black for an electric, high-tech brand identity. In packaging, lime accents on white suggest organic freshness—ideal for health drinks and snack brands.

Every format

#8A9A44 Color Conversions

Every way to write Chorus of Frogs — one-tap copy on every format; tap on any card to learn what it is and when to use it.

12 formats
HEX Web
#8A9A44

Hexadecimal is the web’s universal color notation — two digits each for red, green and blue. Drop it straight into HTML, CSS or any design tool.

RGB Screen
rgb(138, 154, 68)

RGB is the additive Red-Green-Blue model every screen uses to emit light. The default choice for websites, apps and on-screen UI.

HSL Web
hsl(71, 39%, 44%)

HSL breaks a color into Hue, Saturation and Lightness — the most intuitive way to lighten, darken or mute a color in CSS.

HSV HSB Design
hsv(71, 56%, 60%)

HSV (also called HSB) maps Hue, Saturation and Value/Brightness. It is the model behind the color pickers in Photoshop, Figma and most design apps.

HWB CSS 4
hwb(71 27% 40%)

HWB blends a pure hue with Whiteness and Blackness — a painter-friendly model added in CSS Color 4 for quick tints and shades.

CMYK Print
cmyk(10%, 0%, 56%, 40%)

CMYK is the subtractive Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black ink model. Use these values when preparing artwork for a printer or commercial press.

OKLCH Modern
oklch(65.49% 0.113 118.42)

OKLCH is a modern, perceptually-uniform space (Lightness, Chroma, Hue). It powers smooth gradients and accessible palettes in today’s CSS.

OKLab Modern
oklab(65.49% -0.054 0.100)

OKLab is the Cartesian form of OKLCH — ideal for blending and interpolating colors without the muddy midpoints older spaces produce.

CIELAB L*a*b* Perceptual
L: 60.72, a: -18.76, b: 42.54

CIELAB is a device-independent, perceptually-uniform space. It is the standard for measuring color difference (ΔE) and matching across devices.

LCH Perceptual
L: 60.72, C: 46.49, H: 113.79

LCH is CIELAB in cylindrical form — Lightness, Chroma and Hue — letting you adjust vividness and hue while staying perceptually even.

XYZ CIE Science
X: 23.08, Y: 28.93, Z: 9.84

CIE XYZ is the 1931 master space that underpins every other model here — the scientific bridge used to convert between color systems.

Decimal int Code
9083460

The 24-bit integer value of the color — handy for databases, APIs, game engines and low-level graphics code.

Channel breakdown

RGB Color Percentages for #8A9A44

How much red, green and blue light mixes into Chorus of Frogs.

Red 138/255 38.3% Green 154/255 42.8% Blue 68/255 18.9%

Percentages show each channel's share of the total light (R + G + B) in Chorus of Frogs.

Ink coverage

CMYK Ink Levels & Print Guide for #8A9A44

Ink needed to reproduce Chorus of Frogs in four-color print. Heaviest ink: Yellow.

10% CYAN 0% MAGENTA 56% YELLOW 40% KEY

Print tip: treat these values as a starting point — final output depends on printer profile, paper stock and calibration.

Accessibility · WCAG

Luminance & Contrast for #8A9A44

How bright Chorus of Frogs is, and how far black and white text clear each WCAG bar.

Relative luminance 0.289
0 · dark1 · light

Contrast ratio · 1:1 → 21:1 (log scale)

Aa Black text 6.79:1 ✓ AA ✕ AAA ✓ Large
Aa White text 3.09:1 ✕ AA ✕ AAA ✓ Large

Developer shortcuts

Quick CSS Snippets for #8A9A44

Copy-and-paste CSS for Chorus of Frogs — per-line copy, or grab the whole block.

chorus-of-frogs.css
background-color: #8A9A44;
color: #8A9A44;
border: 2px solid #8A9A44;
background-color: rgb(138, 154, 68);
background-color: hsl(71, 39%, 44%);
--color: #8A9A44;

Shades · light to dark

#8A9A44 Monochrome Palette

Lighter and darker steps of Chorus of Frogs — the color's full brightness range in one strip.

#F3F5EC
#E2E6D0
#D0D7B4
#BFC798
#ADB87C
#9CA960
#8A9A44
#75833A
#616C30
#4C5525
#373E1B
#232711
#0E0F07

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Harmony · 180° apart

#8A9A44 Complementary Palette

Two colors opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast for attention-grabbing accents.

#8A9A44
#54449C

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Harmony · adjacent hues

#8A9A44 Analogic Palette

Neighboring hues on the wheel — harmonious, calm combinations that feel unified.

#8A9A44
#609C44
#9C8044
#449C54
#9C5444
#449C80
#9C4460

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Harmony · 120° apart

#8A9A44 Triadic Palette

Three colors evenly spaced on the wheel — vibrant and energetic, yet balanced.

#8A9A44
#448C9C
#9C448C

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Harmony · 90° apart

#8A9A44 Quad Palette

Four colors evenly spaced on the wheel (tetradic) — rich schemes with multiple accents.

#8A9A44
#449C80
#54449C
#9C4460

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Accessibility

Color Blindness Simulation for #8A9A44

How Chorus of Frogs reads across five kinds of color vision — a ✓ Friendly verdict means the color difference stays distinguishable for that vision type.

#8A9A44
#908F5E
#919159
#8B696D
#909090
Normal vision full color Deuteranopia green weakness ✓ Friendly Protanopia red weakness ✓ Friendly Tritanopia blue-yellow weakness ✕ Not friendly Achromatopsia total color blindness ✕ Not friendly

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Harmony overview

Color Harmonies for #8A9A44

The lead color from each harmony scheme, side by side — a shortcut to the full palettes above.

#54449C
#609C44
#448C9C
#449C80
Complementary opposite hue Analogous adjacent hue Triadic 120° apart Tetradic (Quad) 90° apart

Perceptually nearby

#8A9A44 Nearby Colors

A step away in brightness, richness or shade — each still feels like the same color.

Springtide Melodies#99AA55
Pesto di Rucola#778833
Zoodles#AABB66
Topiary Green#667722
Chorus of Frogs#889933
Vitality#889955
Mossy Glossy#779944
Lazy Lizard#999944

From the color-name library

Colors Similar to #8A9A44

The closest named colors to #8A9A44 — same mood, each with its own character.

Chorus of Frogs#8C9632
Totally Broccoli#909853
Rosemarried#819B4F
Vitality#8F9B5B
Lazy Lizard#9C9C4B
Springtide Melodies#9AA955
Lime It or Leave It#8CA94A
Mossy Glossy#789B4A
Snakes in the Grass#889717
Densetsu Green#889911
Garden of Earthly Delights#A09F5B
Pesto di Rucola#748A35

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Inspiration

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Good to know

Frequently Asked Questions about #8A9A44

#8A9A44 is a cool color from the Lime family. Its closest matched name is “Chorus of Frogs”, matched perceptually with the CIEDE2000 color-difference formula. In RGB it is rgb(138, 154, 68); in HSL, hsl(71, 39%, 44%).
In RGB, #8A9A44 is rgb(138, 154, 68); in HSL it is hsl(71, 39%, 44%); and in CMYK — the model used for print — it is cmyk(10%, 0%, 56%, 40%).
#8A9A44 has a contrast ratio of 6.79:1 against black and 3.09:1 against white. For readability, black body text meets the WCAG AA threshold of 4.5:1 on it, while white does not.
The direct complement of #8A9A44 is #54449C (opposite on the color wheel). For ready-made combinations, this page includes monochrome, analogous, triadic and tetradic palettes built from #8A9A44 in the palette sections above.