#BEAAA7

sRGB: 190 / 170 / 167

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Sacred blossoms awaken beneath celestial skies
Brilliant stars embrace the coming dawn

#BEAAA7 belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 170 green and 167 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 7.8° lands in the red region. Its 15.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 70.0% 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 (9.50:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 170, 167
HSL: 7.83°, 15.03%, 70.00%
HSV / HSB: 7.83°, 12.11%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 10.53%, 12.11%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 42.583, 42.487, 42.518
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 71.205, 6.709, 4.180
WCAG relative luminance: 0.42487
24-bit decimal: 12495527

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 #BEAAA7 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: 9.50:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.21:1

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

#A7BBBE sits half a turn (180°) from #BEAAA7 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.

#BEAAA7 #A7BBBE

Analogous

#BEA7B0 and #BEB5A7 sit 30° to either side of #BEAAA7. 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.

#BEA7B0 #BEAAA7 #BEB5A7

Triadic

#BEAAA7, #A7BEAA and #AAA7BE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEAAA7 #A7BEAA #AAA7BE

Split complementary

Start at #BEAAA7 and look across the wheel. #A7BEB6 and #A7B0BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEAAA7 #A7BEB6 #A7B0BE

Square

Starting with #BEAAA7, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #B0BEA7, #A7BBBE, then #B6A7BE. Across the square, #BEAAA7 pairs with #A7BBBE, and #B0BEA7 with #B6A7BE.

#BEAAA7 #B0BEA7 #A7BBBE #B6A7BE

Tetradic

#BEAAA7 and #A7BBBE are opposites, as are #BBBEA7 and #AAA7BE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEAAA7 #BBBEA7 #A7BBBE #AAA7BE

Tints

Mixing #BEAAA7 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBBBB9, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2EEED, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEAAA7 #CBBBB9 #D8CCCA #E5DDDC #F2EEED #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEAAA7 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #988886, keeps 80% of the original. By #262221, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEAAA7 #988886 #726664 #4C4443 #262221 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEAAA7 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2A29F, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C8888, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEAAA7 #B2A29F #A59997 #999190 #8C8888 #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

#BEAAA7

RGB

rgb(190 170 167)

HSL

hsl(7.826 15.033% 70.000%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEAAA7;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEAAA7 uses 190 red, 170 green and 167 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 66.7%

Blue 65.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEAAA7 is 0.0% cyan, 10.5% magenta, 12.1% yellow and 25.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 10.5%

Yellow 12.1%

Black 25.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBAAAA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BAA in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEAAA7 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC9999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBAAAA Nearest web-safe: #CC9999

Gradient to complement

#BEAAA7 #BAADAB #B6B0AF #B3B3B3 #AFB5B6 #ABB8BA #A7BBBE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEAAA7 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.

#AEACA7

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.

#B2B0A7

Tritanopia

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

#C3A8A9

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.

#B4ACA7

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.

#B6AEA7

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BEAAA8

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#AEAEAE

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.

#B6ACAB

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 0.40198 B 0.38643

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 0.73197 G 0.66946 B 0.65744

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.49487 G 0.40573 B 0.38975

CIE xyY

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

x 0.334 y 0.333 Y 42.487

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 33.333 Y % 34.510

Binary RGB

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

10111110 10101010 10100111