Named color

Hookers Green

Hookers Green color #49796B: RGB 73, 121, 107 and HSL 163°, 25%, 38%. Explore its cool green profile, contrast, CSS, palettes and harmonies.

#49796B green cool muted earth-tone

HEX #49796B

RGB rgb(73, 121, 107)

HSL hsl(163 25% 38%)

CMYK cmyk(40, 0, 12, 53)

Luminance 0.1615

Contrast Black 4.23:1White 4.96:1

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Create with Hookers Green

Open a professional color tool with #49796B already applied. Each configuration stays canonical to the tool and can be adjusted or shared.

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CSS Utilities

--color-hookers-green: #49796B;
.bg-hookers-green { background-color: #49796B; }
.text-hookers-green { color: #49796B; }

Open CSS utility pageReusable variables, classes, examples, and implementation notes

Color history, meaning and use · Editorially reviewed

About Hookers Green Color

Hooker’s Green began as a practical botanical mixture associated with the nineteenth-century English illustrator William Jackson Hooker. Winsor & Newton traces the traditional effect to gamboge combined with Prussian blue: a mixture capable of describing varied stems and leaves before convenient premixed greens became common. The name survived even as modern manufacturers replaced the historic ingredients with more stable pigment combinations.

The digital color belongs to the natural, yellow-leaning side of green and is useful for foliage, maps, heritage illustration, and subdued interfaces. It should not be treated as one universal paint recipe. Winsor & Newton’s current professional watercolor, for example, is a mixed color using PG36 and PY110, while other brands can formulate the same name differently and produce different transparency, staining, and permanence.

This HEX describes a screen color, not a standardized artists’ pigment, botanical identification aid, product match, or archival-performance claim.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Hookers Green against black and white text.

Black text4.23:1AA Fail

White text4.96:1AA Pass

AA text options#FFFFFF, #F5F5F5

AAA text optionsNone in seed set

Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Downloadable color reference infographic

Hookers Green Color Reference Infographic

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Hookers Green color reference infographic showing #49796B, RGB and HSL values, a coordinated palette, and black and white text contrast. — Hookers Green color reference infographic generated from the verified Colors Encyclopedia dataset.

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Color Harmonies

#794956#794956 #497953#497953 #496F79#496F79 #6B4979#6B4979 #796B49#796B49

Open full Hookers Green harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#73AB9B#73AB9B #264039#264039 #338E75#338E75 #5E6462#5E6462 #97AAA5#97AAA5 #00EBA8#00EBA8

Pairings

White#FFFFFF #794956#794956 #497953#497953 #496F79#496F79 Matte Black#1A1A1A White Smoke#F5F5F5

Luminance0.1615

Black text4.23:1AA Fail

White text4.96:1AA Pass

hexCanonical HEX value

rgbRed, green, blue channels

hslHue, saturation, lightness

cmykApproximate print conversion

wcagAA and AAA contrast options

harmoniesMathematical harmony sets

variantsGenerated tone variants

nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors

Structured sections

Color systems

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    121,
    107
  ],
  "hsl": [
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    25,
    38
  ],
  "cmyk": [
    40,
    0,
    12,
    53
  ],
  "luminance": 0.1615,
  "contrast": {
    "black": 4.23,
    "white": 4.96
  }
}

WCAG

{
  "AA": [
    "#FFFFFF",
    "#F5F5F5"
  ],
  "AAA": []
}

Harmonies

{
  "complementary": "#794956",
  "analogous": [
    "#497953",
    "#496F79"
  ],
  "triadic": [
    "#6B4979",
    "#796B49"
  ],
  "tetradic": [
    "#534979",
    "#794956",
    "#6F7949"
  ],
  "splitComplementary": [
    "#79496F",
    "#795349"
  ],
  "monochromatic": [
    "#73AB9B",
    "#49796B",
    "#264039"
  ]
}

Variants

{
  "light": "#73AB9B",
  "dark": "#264039",
  "saturated": "#338E75",
  "desaturated": "#5E6462",
  "pastel": "#97AAA5",
  "neon": "#00EBA8"
}

Pairings

{
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    "#FFFFFF",
    "#794956",
    "#497953",
    "#496F79"
  ],
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    "#5E6462",
    "#73AB9B"
  ],
  "neutral": [
    "#1A1A1A",
    "#F5F5F5",
    "#E8E8E4"
  ],
  "highContrast": [
    "#FFFFFF"
  ],
  "lowContrast": [
    "#73AB9B",
    "#5E6462"
  ]
}

Knowledge graph

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  ],
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}

Full JSON dataset

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}

Hookers Green

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CSS Utilities

About Hookers Green Color

WCAG Accessibility

Hookers Green Color Reference Infographic

Color Harmonies

Variants

Pairings

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