#BE21BD

sRGB: 190 / 33 / 189

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Withered branches disappear beneath stillness
Eternal flames shatter the chains of fate

#BE21BD belongs to the magenta family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 33 green and 189 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 300.4° lands in the magenta region. Its 70.4% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 43.7% 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 (5.07:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 33, 189
HSL: 300.38°, 70.40%, 43.73%
HSV / HSB: 300.38°, 82.63%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 82.63%, 0.53%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 30.963, 15.711, 49.547
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 46.592, 74.243, -45.905
WCAG relative luminance: 0.15709
24-bit decimal: 12460477

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 #BE21BD 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: 4.14:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

White text: 5.07:1

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

#21BE22 sits half a turn (180°) from #BE21BD 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.

#BE21BD #21BE22

Analogous

#7121BE and #BE216E sit 30° to either side of #BE21BD. 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.

#7121BE #BE21BD #BE216E

Triadic

#BE21BD, #BDBE21 and #21BDBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BE21BD #BDBE21 #21BDBE

Split complementary

Start at #BE21BD and look across the wheel. #6EBE21 and #21BE71 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BE21BD #6EBE21 #21BE71

Square

Starting with #BE21BD, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BE7121, #21BE22, then #216EBE. Across the square, #BE21BD pairs with #21BE22, and #BE7121 with #216EBE.

#BE21BD #BE7121 #21BE22 #216EBE

Tetradic

#BE21BD and #21BE22 are opposites, as are #BE2221 and #21BDBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BE21BD #BE2221 #21BE22 #21BDBE

Tints

Mixing #BE21BD with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CB4DCA, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2D3F2, the mixture is 80% white.

#BE21BD #CB4DCA #D87AD7 #E5A6E5 #F2D3F2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BE21BD with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #981A97, keeps 80% of the original. By #260726, the mixture is 80% black.

#BE21BD #981A97 #721471 #4C0D4C #260726 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BE21BD with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B234B1, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C6D8C, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BE21BD #B234B1 #A547A5 #995A98 #8C6D8C #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

#BE21BD

RGB

rgb(190 33 189)

HSL

hsl(300.382 70.404% 43.725%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BE21BD;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BE21BD uses 190 red, 33 green and 189 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 12.9%

Blue 74.1%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BE21BD is 0.0% cyan, 82.6% magenta, 0.5% yellow and 25.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 82.6%

Yellow 0.5%

Black 25.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BB22BB. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #B2B in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BE21BD when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC33CC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BB22BB Nearest web-safe: #CC33CC

Gradient to complement

#BE21BD #A43BA3 #8A5589 #707070 #558A56 #3BA43C #21BE22

Color vision previews

Compare how #BE21BD 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.

#0062C1

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.

#5375B9

Tritanopia

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

#C43E72

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.

#7455BE

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.

#7F63BB

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BC35A7

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#6E6E6E

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.

#9D539C

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 0.01521 B 0.50888

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 0.68448 G 0.19575 B 0.71745

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.42620 G 0.03180 B 0.47324

CIE xyY

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

x 0.322 y 0.163 Y 15.711

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 87.059 Y % 25.882

Binary RGB

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

10111110 00100001 10111101