Greenish Beige #C9D179

About this color

#C9D179 is a light, moderately saturated yellow. In OKLCH its lightness is 84%, its chroma 0.112 and its hue 113°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Greenish Beige. Black text reads best on it, at 12.87:1.

Colors that go with Greenish Beige

Matches found by rotating Greenish Beige around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Greenish Beige

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Greenish Beige, closest first.

• Balloon Playground
• Wildflower and Hay
• Roller Sunset
• Paisley Tour
• Horizon Blue
• Spruce Ridge
• Hemlock Path
• Evergreen Light

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Greenish Beige, with their ΔE distance.

• Greenish Tan #BCCB7A ΔE 0.025
• Pale Olive #B9CC81 ΔE 0.028
• Pale Olive Green #B1D27B ΔE 0.031
• Sand #E2CA76 ΔE 0.037
• Saffron #E9C46A ΔE 0.051
• Light Grey Green #B7E1A1 ΔE 0.052
• Light Moss Green #A6C875 ΔE 0.054
• Sandy #F1DA7A ΔE 0.063

More about Greenish Beige

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Greenish Beige

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 2 parts orange
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #D3CF85, a difference of ΔE 0.022 from Greenish Beige. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Greenish Beige in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Greenish Beige

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 300.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F5F7EB

   oklch(97.1% 0.016 114.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E9EDD4

   oklch(93.6% 0.033 114.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D9DEAF

   oklch(88.5% 0.062 112.6)

4. Step 300

   300 (this color)

   #C9D179

   oklch(83.5% 0.112 113.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #A2AA00

   oklch(70.8% 0.158 113.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #8B9100

   oklch(63% 0.14 112.7)

7. Step 600

   600

   #747A00

   oklch(55.6% 0.124 113.2)

8. Step 700

   700

   #626700

   oklch(49.3% 0.11 113.1)

9. Step 800

   800

   #505400

   oklch(42.8% 0.095 112.9)

10. Step 900

    900

    #424600

    oklch(37.8% 0.084 113.4)

11. Step 950

    950

    #272900

    oklch(27% 0.06 112.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Greenish Beige with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.