Moss Green Color Codes
Moss Green is a mid-tone, desaturated yellow-green with the hex code #8A9A5B, RGB values of 138, 154, 91 and an HSL value of hsl(75, 26%, 48%).
| HEX | #8A9A5B |
|---|---|
| RGB | 138, 154, 91 |
| HSL | hsl(75, 26%, 48%) |
| HSV | 75°, 41%, 60% |
| CMYK | 10%, 0%, 41%, 40% |
| LAB | 61.02, -16.28, 31.17 |
| CIELCHuv | 61.02, 42.17, 99.36° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 5767 C ΔE 5.8 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
darkkhakiΔE 16.6
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Moss Green Color Hex Code
The Moss Green color hex code is #8A9A5B. Those six digits are three pairs, 8A for red, 9A for green and 5B for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#8A9A5B
Moss Green Color RGB Code
The Moss Green RGB code is rgb(138, 154, 91). Green carries the most light at 154 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(138, 154, 91)
Moss Green Color HSV Code
The Moss Green HSV code is 75°, 41%, 60%. Read it as a hue of 75 degrees, 41% saturation and 60% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
75°, 41%, 60%
Moss Green Color CIELChuv Code
The Moss Green CIELCHuv code is 61.02, 42.17, 99.36°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 61 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 42 is how far it sits from grey.
61.02, 42.17, 99.36°
Tonal scale
What are Moss Green Color Palettes?
A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.
Shades, toward black
Tints, toward white
Tones, toward grey
Palettes
What are Moss Green Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #8A9A5B. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Directly opposite sits #6B5B9A, a dark, desaturated blue. No other pairing separates two hues further, so this is the one to reach for when a single element has to win attention. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.
Analogous
#9A8B5B and #6B9A5B sit 30 degrees either side. All three share most of their hue, so the set reads as one family instead of three separate decisions. Good for backgrounds and for state variations that should not announce themselves.
Triadic
#5B8A9A and #9A5B8A complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.
Split-complementary
Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #5B6B9A and #8B5B9A. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.
Tetradic
Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #6B5B9A, and #5B9A8B with #9A5B6B. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Moss Green accessible?
Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.
White background
3.06:13.06
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
Black background
6.85:16.85
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
Against white Moss Green reaches 3.06:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 6.85:1.
Color vision
How Moss Green looks with color blindness
Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.
Protanopia
About 1% of men#91916F
Moss Green shifts noticeably here. ΔE 16.8
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#908F73
Moss Green shifts noticeably here. ΔE 20.0
No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.
Tritanopia
About 1 in 10,000#8B7B7E
Moss Green changes substantially here. ΔE 39.0
No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.
Achromatopsia
About 1 in 30,000#939393
Moss Green changes substantially here. ΔE 35.2
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Moss Green reads as #908F73. That is a shift of ΔE 20.0, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the green range, the other half of the red-green pair. Against a red of similar lightness it will not read as distinct, so anything depending on that contrast needs a second cue. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 39.0. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.
Snippets
Using Moss Green in code
:root {
--moss-green: #8A9A5B;
}
.example {
color: var(--moss-green);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'moss-green': '#8A9A5B',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let mossGreen = Color(
red: 0.541,
green: 0.604,
blue: 0.357
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="moss_green">#8A9A5B</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const mossGreen = Color(0xFF8A9A5B);