#BBD7CA

sRGB: 187 / 215 / 202

Ancient mountains rise against oblivion
Electric visions unfold through ancient forests
Boundless spirits illuminate hidden worlds

#BBD7CA belongs to the green-cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 187 red, 215 green and 202 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 152.1° lands in the green-cyan region. Its 25.9% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 78.8% 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 (13.69:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 187, 215, 202
HSL: 152.14°, 25.93%, 78.82%
HSV / HSB: 152.14°, 13.02%, 84.31%
CMYK (approx.): 13.02%, 0.00%, 6.05%, 15.69%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 55.452, 63.429, 65.201
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 83.668, -11.806, 3.277
WCAG relative luminance: 0.63430
24-bit decimal: 12310474

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 #BBD7CA 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: 13.69:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.53:1

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

#D7BBC8 sits half a turn (180°) from #BBD7CA 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.

#BBD7CA #D7BBC8

Analogous

#BBD7BC and #BBD6D7 sit 30° to either side of #BBD7CA. 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.

#BBD7BC #BBD7CA #BBD6D7

Triadic

#BBD7CA, #CABBD7 and #D7CABB are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BBD7CA #CABBD7 #D7CABB

Split complementary

Start at #BBD7CA and look across the wheel. #D7BBD6 and #D7BCBB sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BBD7CA #D7BBD6 #D7BCBB

Square

Starting with #BBD7CA, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BCBBD7, #D7BBC8, then #D6D7BB. Across the square, #BBD7CA pairs with #D7BBC8, and #BCBBD7 with #D6D7BB.

#BBD7CA #BCBBD7 #D7BBC8 #D6D7BB

Tetradic

#BBD7CA and #D7BBC8 are opposites, as are #BBC8D7 and #D7CABB. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BBD7CA #BBC8D7 #D7BBC8 #D7CABB

Tints

Mixing #BBD7CA with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #C9DFD5, keeps 80% of the original. By #F1F7F4, the mixture is 80% white.

#BBD7CA #C9DFD5 #D6E7DF #E4EFEA #F1F7F4 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BBD7CA with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #96ACA2, keeps 80% of the original. By #252B28, the mixture is 80% black.

#BBD7CA #96ACA2 #708179 #4B5651 #252B28 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BBD7CA with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #AFC6BB, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C918F, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BBD7CA #AFC6BB #A3B4AC #98A39E #8C918F #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

#BBD7CA

RGB

rgb(187 215 202)

HSL

hsl(152.143 25.926% 78.824%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BBD7CA;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BBD7CA uses 187 red, 215 green and 202 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 73.3%

Green 84.3%

Blue 79.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BBD7CA is 13.0% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 6.0% yellow and 15.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 13.0%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 6.0%

Black 15.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBDDCC. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BDC in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BBD7CA when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBDDCC Nearest web-safe: #CCCCCC

Gradient to complement

#BBD7CA #C0D2CA #C4CEC9 #C9C9C9 #CEC4C9 #D2C0C8 #D7BBC8

Color vision previews

Compare how #BBD7CA 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.

#D6D3C9

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.

#D0CFCB

Tritanopia

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

#B6D7D3

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.

#CDD4CA

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.

#CAD2CB

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BBD7CD

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#D1D1D1

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.

#C6D4CD

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 0.49693 G 0.67954 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 0.75437 G 0.83979 B 0.79504

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.52935 G 0.67348 B 0.59546

CIE xyY

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

x 0.301 y 0.345 Y 63.429

CMY

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

C % 26.667 M % 15.686 Y % 20.784

Binary RGB

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

10111011 11010111 11001010