#AAA3BE

sRGB: 170 / 163 / 190

Radiant blossoms flourish beyond boundaries
Sacred blossoms flicker through endless evenings
Eternal flames transcend the limits of dreams

#AAA3BE belongs to the violet family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 170 red, 163 green and 190 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 255.6° lands in the violet region. Its 17.2% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 69.2% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (8.69:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 170, 163, 190
HSL: 255.56°, 17.20%, 69.22%
HSV / HSB: 255.56°, 14.21%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 10.53%, 14.21%, 0.00%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 38.967, 38.458, 54.087
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 68.357, 7.835, -12.941
WCAG relative luminance: 0.38458
24-bit decimal: 11183038

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #AAA3BE in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 8.69:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.42:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#B7BEA3 sits half a turn (180°) from #AAA3BE on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#AAA3BE #B7BEA3

Analogous

#A3AABE and #B7A3BE sit 30° to either side of #AAA3BE. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#A3AABE #AAA3BE #B7A3BE

Triadic

#AAA3BE, #BEAAA3 and #A3BEAA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AAA3BE #BEAAA3 #A3BEAA

Split complementary

Start at #AAA3BE and look across the wheel. #BEB8A3 and #AABEA3 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AAA3BE #BEB8A3 #AABEA3

Square

Starting with #AAA3BE, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BEA3AA, #B7BEA3, then #A3BEB8. Across the square, #AAA3BE pairs with #B7BEA3, and #BEA3AA with #A3BEB8.

#AAA3BE #BEA3AA #B7BEA3 #A3BEB8

Tetradic

#AAA3BE and #B7BEA3 are opposites, as are #BEA3B7 and #A3BEAA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AAA3BE #BEA3B7 #B7BEA3 #A3BEAA

Tints

Mixing #AAA3BE with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBB5CB, keeps 80% of the original. By #EEEDF2, the mixture is 80% white.

#AAA3BE #BBB5CB #CCC8D8 #DDDAE5 #EEEDF2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AAA3BE with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #888298, keeps 80% of the original. By #222126, the mixture is 80% black.

#AAA3BE #888298 #666272 #44414C #222126 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AAA3BE with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A29CB2, keeps 80% of the original. By #88878C, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AAA3BE #A29CB2 #9995A5 #918E99 #88878C #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#AAA3BE

RGB

rgb(170 163 190)

HSL

hsl(255.556 17.197% 69.216%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AAA3BE;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AAA3BE uses 170 red, 163 green and 190 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 66.7%

Green 63.9%

Blue 74.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AAA3BE is 10.5% cyan, 14.2% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 25.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 10.5%

Magenta 14.2%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 25.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AAAABB. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #AAB in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AAA3BE when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #9999CC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AAAABB Nearest web-safe: #9999CC

Gradient to complement

#AAA3BE #ACA8BA #AEACB5 #B1B1B1 #B3B5AC #B5BAA8 #B7BEA3

Color vision previews

Compare how #AAA3BE appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#9EA7BF

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#9FA6BD

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#A7A7AC

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#A2A5BF

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#A2A5BE

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#A9A4B8

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#A7A7A7

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#A8A5B3

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.40198 G 0.36625 B 0.51492

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.66190 G 0.64015 B 0.73682

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.39564 G 0.36744 B 0.50223

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.296 y 0.292 Y 38.458

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 33.333 M % 36.078 Y % 25.490

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

10101010 10100011 10111110