#AFCBCA

sRGB: 175 / 203 / 202

Radiant blossoms reshape eternity
Majestic waterfalls shimmer across boundless heavens
Boundless spirits illuminate hidden worlds

#AFCBCA belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 175 red, 203 green and 202 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 177.9° lands in the cyan region. Its 21.2% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 74.1% 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 (12.22:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 175, 203, 202
HSL: 177.86°, 21.21%, 74.12%
HSV / HSB: 177.86°, 13.79%, 79.61%
CMYK (approx.): 13.79%, 0.00%, 0.49%, 20.39%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 49.693, 56.089, 64.087
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 79.665, -9.545, -2.659
WCAG relative luminance: 0.56090
24-bit decimal: 11520970

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 #AFCBCA 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: 12.22:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.72:1

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

#CBAFB0 sits half a turn (180°) from #AFCBCA 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.

#AFCBCA #CBAFB0

Analogous

#AFCBBC and #AFBECB sit 30° to either side of #AFCBCA. 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.

#AFCBBC #AFCBCA #AFBECB

Triadic

#AFCBCA, #CAAFCB and #CBCAAF are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#AFCBCA #CAAFCB #CBCAAF

Split complementary

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

#AFCBCA #CBAFBE #CBBCAF

Square

Starting with #AFCBCA, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BCAFCB, #CBAFB0, then #BECBAF. Across the square, #AFCBCA pairs with #CBAFB0, and #BCAFCB with #BECBAF.

#AFCBCA #BCAFCB #CBAFB0 #BECBAF

Tetradic

#AFCBCA and #CBAFB0 are opposites, as are #AFB0CB and #CBCAAF. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#AFCBCA #AFB0CB #CBAFB0 #CBCAAF

Tints

Mixing #AFCBCA with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BFD5D5, keeps 80% of the original. By #EFF5F4, the mixture is 80% white.

#AFCBCA #BFD5D5 #CFE0DF #DFEAEA #EFF5F4 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #AFCBCA with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8CA2A2, keeps 80% of the original. By #232928, the mixture is 80% black.

#AFCBCA #8CA2A2 #697A79 #465151 #232928 #000000

Tones

Mixing #AFCBCA with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A6BCBB, keeps 80% of the original. By #898F8F, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#AFCBCA #A6BCBB #9CADAC #939E9E #898F8F #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

#AFCBCA

RGB

rgb(175 203 202)

HSL

hsl(177.857 21.212% 74.118%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#AFCBCA uses 175 red, 203 green and 202 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 68.6%

Green 79.6%

Blue 79.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #AFCBCA is 13.8% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 0.5% yellow and 20.4% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 13.8%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 0.5%

Black 20.4%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #AACCCC. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #ACC in CSS. For a modern design, keep #AFCBCA when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #99CCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #AACCCC Nearest web-safe: #99CCCC

Gradient to complement

#AFCBCA #B4C6C6 #B8C2C1 #BDBDBD #C2B8B9 #C6B4B4 #CBAFB0

Color vision previews

Compare how #AFCBCA 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.

#C7C8CA

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.

#C2C4CA

Tritanopia

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

#A7CDCB

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.

#BFC9CA

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.

#BDC6CA

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#AFCBCA

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#C5C5C5

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.

#BBC8C8

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 0.59720 B 0.59062

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 0.70741 G 0.79275 B 0.79079

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.45861 G 0.59161 B 0.58833

CIE xyY

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

x 0.293 y 0.330 Y 56.089

CMY

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

C % 31.373 M % 20.392 Y % 20.784

Binary RGB

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

10101111 11001011 11001010