Bonsai Garden Color

#9e9e7c

Bonsai Garden is pale, warm-toned shade of warm yellow. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with cool blue, warm magenta or warm cyan

Inverse Color #616183
Complementary Color #7c7c9e
Color Shade: warm yellow (60° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 55.29% (better contrasting with white)
Bonsai Garden Color Sample
Bonsai Garden Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #9e9e7c

If you're looking for a similar warm yellow shade, there are some better alternatives to Bonsai Garden Color. The Old Celadon color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a orange bias. Consider a darker and more soft alternative called Incognito (#8e8e82) for more calm effect. Try Mudstone as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#7c7c9e is the best complementary color to Bonsai Garden. Cool blue shades generally complement the warm yellow hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #9e9e7c complementary color is Waterloo , as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of orange, warm yellow, and cool yellow colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Gurkha are #9e8d7c and #8d9e7c. Thus found on the left and right of #9e9e7c on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Pale Oyster and Sage colors as they work well with Bonsai Garden.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Bonsai Garden palette consists of #8d7c9e and #7c8d9e colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#7c7c9e). Try Mamba and Regent Gray colors in combination with #9e9e7c, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #9e9e7c offers a combination of cool magenta and warm cyan shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Bonsai Garden. Thus Mountbatten Pink and Granny Smith giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Bonsai Garden contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Waterloo , Oxley, and Mountbatten Pink split by 90° on the color wheel. #9e9e7c square combo is a palette of warm yellow, cool green, cool blue and warm magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Bonsai Garden tetradic combo consists of cool blue complementary color (#7c7c9e) and two others. The Granny Smith is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Pharlap – 120° from the complementary Waterloo . This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #7c9e9e and #9e7c7c.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #9e9e7c is made of 36% red, 36% green and 28% blue. In a HSL mode Bonsai Garden has a hue angle of 60°, a saturation of 14.91% and a lightness of 55.29%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #9e9e7c is made of 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 13.33% yellow and 38.04% black ink.

HEX #9e9e7c
RGB Decimal rgb(158,158,124)
RGB Percentage 36%, 36%, 28%
CMYK 0, 0, 13.33, 38.04
HSL hsl(60,14.91%,55.29%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(60,21.52%,61.96%)
CIE-LAB lab(64.3048,-5.8396,17.8227)
XYZ xyz(29.9655,33.1781,23.8934)
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