Yucca #75978F

Yucca (#75978F) is a mid-tone, muted blue-green with an OKLCH hue of 179°, lightness 0.65 and chroma 0.04. It sits on the cool side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as a mid-weight working color for secondary surfaces and editorial blocks.

Color values

HEX#75978F
RGBrgb(117, 151, 143)
HSLhsl(166, 14%, 53%)
HSVhsv(166, 23%, 59%)
CMYKcmyk(23%, 0%, 5%, 41%)
CIE Lablab(59.8 -13.5 0.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.648 0.040 179)

How Yucca behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Yucca shifts subtly: drifts toward green; in north-facing or shaded light it shifts subtly: leans toward sky blue. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 1.7), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Yucca in the color lighting simulator — sweep it through daylight, warm 2700K light, 4000K LED, and shade alongside the rest of your palette.

Contrast & accessibility

Against white it measures 3.19:1 and against black 6.58:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text.

Colors that go with Yucca

Tonal

One color explored: close hues with real lightness and chroma structure, so the palette is the anchor through value rather than a set of colors.

#d3eee8 · #a9c7bf · #75978f · #5c7b74 · #3b5751 · #1d3530

Analogous

The anchor's neighbours on the wheel — everything shares an undertone, so the chord carries color without anything having to be muted to get along.

#88bec9 · #6daeae · #75978f · #548a71 · #527656 · #4f613e

Shifted

The mid-gap pairing — sage and mustard, terracotta and olive. A foil rotated 40–65° toward warm or cool: too far to be kin, too near to argue, carried by temperature and a deliberate value offset.

#96b2c1 · #75978f · #447d72 · #1f5c77 · #08443b · #082531

Contrast

One deliberately opposed voice — a single restrained counterpoint across the wheel, or temperature against temperature where the anchor is too muted to carry a loud opposite.

#b8ddd4 · #a2b6b1 · #75978f · #925b6d · #385650 · #243733

Quiet Support

The anchor as the only color in the room. True neutrals or complement-warmed near-neutrals let it stay dominant.

#f8eff1 · #a1aeaa · #75978f · #787274 · #263330 · #020101

Bright Accent

This color as a ground rather than a subject — its own restraint held across a narrow value band, carrying one saturated voice from the opposite temperature.

#e8f5f2 · #becdca · #75978f · #132a25 · #000805 · #e54f8c

Gold Accent

The same quiet ground carrying one bright gold voice — the high-energy pairing a cool or muted anchor cannot reach through its own temperature.

#e8f5f2 · #becdca · #75978f · #132a25 · #000805 · #f0bb4d

Complementary

The opposite hue on the perceptual wheel, tempered to field strength — warm/cool tension without vibration.

#ffecf1 · #cb9ba9 · #75978f · #986173 · #49212f · #000302

Split-complementary

The complement's two neighbours instead of the complement itself — strong contrast with a lower clash risk.

#ffecf1 · #c09dbd · #75978f · #9b635a · #412340 · #050000

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel; the anchor leads and the other two are held at supporting strength.

#f3efff · #afa2cc · #75978f · #956946 · #472709 · #020006

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs offset by 90° — the richest chord, kept usable by a strict lightness hierarchy.

#ecf2ff · #9ba9d1 · #75978f · #986173 · #3d2e00 · #050001

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#88A79F · #9CB6B0 · #B0C6C1 · #C4D7D2 · #D9E7E3

Shades

#5E7C75 · #48635D · #334A45 · #1F332F · #0C1E1A

Muted

#7B958F · #81938F · #86928F

Using Yucca

Its moderate chroma lets it work in mid-size areas — upholstery, secondary UI surfaces, editorial blocks — without overwhelming neighbors. In palettes it pairs most predictably with its tonal ramp and analogous neighbors; reserve the complementary hue for small, deliberate contrast.

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