#BDACCA

sRGB: 189 / 172 / 202
Color name: Fancy Pansy

Ancient mountains command forgotten kingdoms
Sacred blossoms thunder through timeless canyons
Boundless spirits illuminate hidden worlds

The hex code for Fancy Pansy is #BDACCA. It belongs to the violet family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 189 red, 172 green and 202 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 274.0° lands in the violet region. Its 22.1% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 73.3% 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 (9.92:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 189, 172, 202
HSL: 274.00°, 22.06%, 73.33%
HSV / HSB: 274.00°, 14.85%, 79.22%
CMYK (approx.): 6.44%, 14.85%, 0.00%, 20.78%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 46.397, 44.588, 62.041
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 72.620, 11.709, -13.003
WCAG relative luminance: 0.44588
24-bit decimal: 12430538

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 #BDACCA 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: 9.92:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.12:1

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

#B9CAAC sits half a turn (180°) from #BDACCA 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.

#BDACCA #B9CAAC

Analogous

#AEACCA and #CAACC8 sit 30° to either side of #BDACCA. 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.

#AEACCA #BDACCA #CAACC8

Triadic

#BDACCA, #CABDAC and #ACCABD are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BDACCA #CABDAC #ACCABD

Split complementary

Start at #BDACCA and look across the wheel. #C8CAAC and #ACCAAE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BDACCA #C8CAAC #ACCAAE

Square

Starting with #BDACCA, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #CAAEAC, #B9CAAC, then #ACC8CA. Across the square, #BDACCA pairs with #B9CAAC, and #CAAEAC with #ACC8CA.

#BDACCA #CAAEAC #B9CAAC #ACC8CA

Tetradic

#BDACCA and #B9CAAC are opposites, as are #CAACB9 and #ACCABD. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BDACCA #CAACB9 #B9CAAC #ACCABD

Tints

Mixing #BDACCA with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CABDD5, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2EEF4, the mixture is 80% white.

#BDACCA #CABDD5 #D7CDDF #E5DEEA #F2EEF4 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BDACCA with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #978AA2, keeps 80% of the original. By #262228, the mixture is 80% black.

#BDACCA #978AA2 #716779 #4C4551 #262228 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BDACCA with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B1A3BB, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C898F, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BDACCA #B1A3BB #A59AAC #98929E #8C898F #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

#BDACCA

RGB

rgb(189 172 202)

HSL

hsl(274.000 22.059% 73.333%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BDACCA uses 189 red, 172 green and 202 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.1%

Green 67.5%

Blue 79.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BDACCA is 6.4% cyan, 14.9% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 20.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 6.4%

Magenta 14.9%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 20.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBAACC. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BAC in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BDACCA when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC99CC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBAACC Nearest web-safe: #CC99CC

Gradient to complement

#BDACCA #BCB1C5 #BCB6C0 #BBBBBB #BAC0B6 #BAC5B1 #B9CAAC

Color vision previews

Compare how #BDACCA 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.

#A8B1CB

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.

#ABB2C9

Tritanopia

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

#BCAFB6

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.

#B0B0CB

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.

#B1B0C9

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BCADC3

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#B2B2B2

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.

#B8AFBF

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 0.50888 G 0.41254 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 0.72992 G 0.67686 B 0.78356

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.49178 G 0.41574 B 0.57633

CIE xyY

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

x 0.303 y 0.291 Y 44.588

CMY

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

C % 25.882 M % 32.549 Y % 20.784

Binary RGB

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

10111101 10101100 11001010