#BE104F

sRGB: 190 / 16 / 79

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Fragile reflections fade beyond remembrance
Quiet wishes echo beyond eternity

#BE104F belongs to the rose family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 16 green and 79 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 338.3° lands in the rose region. Its 84.5% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 40.4% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (6.22:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 16, 79
HSL: 338.28°, 84.47%, 40.39%
HSV / HSB: 338.28°, 91.58%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 91.58%, 58.42%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 22.831, 11.884, 8.489
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 41.031, 64.990, 12.896
WCAG relative luminance: 0.11882
24-bit decimal: 12456015

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 #BE104F 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: 3.38:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 6.22:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

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

#10BE7F sits half a turn (180°) from #BE104F 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.

#BE104F #10BE7F

Analogous

#BE10A6 and #BE2810 sit 30° to either side of #BE104F. 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.

#BE10A6 #BE104F #BE2810

Triadic

#BE104F, #4FBE10 and #104FBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BE104F #4FBE10 #104FBE

Split complementary

Start at #BE104F and look across the wheel. #10BE28 and #10A6BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BE104F #10BE28 #10A6BE

Square

Starting with #BE104F, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #A6BE10, #10BE7F, then #2810BE. Across the square, #BE104F pairs with #10BE7F, and #A6BE10 with #2810BE.

#BE104F #A6BE10 #10BE7F #2810BE

Tetradic

#BE104F and #10BE7F are opposites, as are #BE7F10 and #104FBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BE104F #BE7F10 #10BE7F #104FBE

Tints

Mixing #BE104F with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CB4072, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2CFDC, the mixture is 80% white.

#BE104F #CB4072 #D87095 #E59FB9 #F2CFDC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BE104F with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #980D3F, keeps 80% of the original. By #260310, the mixture is 80% black.

#BE104F #980D3F #720A2F #4C0620 #260310 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BE104F with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B22659, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C6A76, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BE104F #B22659 #A53D63 #99536C #8C6A76 #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

#BE104F

RGB

rgb(190 16 79)

HSL

hsl(338.276 84.466% 40.392%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BE104F;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BE104F uses 190 red, 16 green and 79 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 6.3%

Blue 31.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BE104F is 0.0% cyan, 91.6% magenta, 58.4% yellow and 25.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 91.6%

Yellow 58.4%

Black 25.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BB1155. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #B15 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BE104F when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC0066, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BB1155 Nearest web-safe: #CC0066

Gradient to complement

#BE104F #A12D57 #844A5F #676767 #4A846F #2DA177 #10BE7F

Color vision previews

Compare how #BE104F 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.

#4A4B50

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.

#746C4B

Tritanopia

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

#D00030

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.

#83434E

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.

#8F594C

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BF1147

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#616161

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.

#994658

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 0.51492 G 0.00518 B 0.07819

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 0.68319 G 0.16049 B 0.31400

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.42442 G 0.02210 B 0.08036

CIE xyY

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

x 0.528 y 0.275 Y 11.884

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 93.725 Y % 69.020

Binary RGB

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

10111110 00010000 01001111