#AFA5BC

sRGB: 175 / 165 / 188

Radiant blossoms reshape eternity
Sacred blossoms wander across quiet meadows
Eternal flames awaken sleeping galaxies

#AFA5BC belongs to the violet family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 175 red, 165 green and 188 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 266.1° lands in the violet region. Its 14.6% 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 (8.93:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 175, 165, 188
HSL: 266.09°, 14.65%, 69.22%
HSV / HSB: 266.09°, 12.23%, 73.73%
CMYK (approx.): 6.91%, 12.23%, 0.00%, 26.27%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 40.209, 39.655, 53.115
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 69.223, 8.008, -10.492
WCAG relative luminance: 0.39655
24-bit decimal: 11511228

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 #AFA5BC 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: 8.93:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.35:1

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

#B2BCA5 sits half a turn (180°) from #AFA5BC 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.

#AFA5BC #B2BCA5

Analogous

#A5A7BC and #BAA5BC sit 30° to either side of #AFA5BC. 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.

#A5A7BC #AFA5BC #BAA5BC

Triadic

#AFA5BC, #BCAFA5 and #A5BCAF are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AFA5BC #BCAFA5 #A5BCAF

Split complementary

Start at #AFA5BC and look across the wheel. #BCBAA5 and #A7BCA5 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#AFA5BC #BCBAA5 #A7BCA5

Square

Starting with #AFA5BC, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BCA5A7, #B2BCA5, then #A5BCBA. Across the square, #AFA5BC pairs with #B2BCA5, and #BCA5A7 with #A5BCBA.

#AFA5BC #BCA5A7 #B2BCA5 #A5BCBA

Tetradic

#AFA5BC and #B2BCA5 are opposites, as are #BCA5B2 and #A5BCAF. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AFA5BC #BCA5B2 #B2BCA5 #A5BCAF

Tints

Mixing #AFA5BC with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BFB7C9, keeps 80% of the original. By #EFEDF2, the mixture is 80% white.

#AFA5BC #BFB7C9 #CFC9D7 #DFDBE4 #EFEDF2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AFA5BC with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8C8496, keeps 80% of the original. By #232126, the mixture is 80% black.

#AFA5BC #8C8496 #696371 #46424B #232126 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AFA5BC with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A69EB0, keeps 80% of the original. By #89878C, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AFA5BC #A69EB0 #9C96A4 #938F98 #89878C #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

#AFA5BC

RGB

rgb(175 165 188)

HSL

hsl(266.087 14.650% 69.216%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #AFA5BC;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AFA5BC uses 175 red, 165 green and 188 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 68.6%

Green 64.7%

Blue 73.7%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AFA5BC is 6.9% cyan, 12.2% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 26.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 6.9%

Magenta 12.2%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 26.3%

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 #AFA5BC 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

#AFA5BC #B0A9B8 #B0ADB4 #B1B1B1 #B1B4AD #B2B8A9 #B2BCA5

Color vision previews

Compare how #AFA5BC 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.

#A1A9BD

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.

#A3A9BB

Tritanopia

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

#ADA8AC

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.

#A6A7BC

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.

#A7A8BC

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AEA6B7

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#A9A9A9

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.

#ACA7B3

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 0.42869 G 0.37626 B 0.50289

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 0.67953 G 0.64841 B 0.73036

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.41938 G 0.37800 B 0.49245

CIE xyY

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

x 0.302 y 0.298 Y 39.655

CMY

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

C % 31.373 M % 35.294 Y % 26.275

Binary RGB

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

10101111 10100101 10111100