#BEAAAC

sRGB: 190 / 170 / 172

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Sacred blossoms awaken beneath celestial skies
Brilliant stars awaken sleeping galaxies

#BEAAAC belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 170 green and 172 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 354.0° lands in the red region. Its 13.3% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 70.6% 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 (9.54:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 170, 172
HSL: 354.00°, 13.33%, 70.59%
HSV / HSB: 354.00°, 10.53%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 10.53%, 9.47%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 43.054, 42.676, 45.000
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 71.334, 7.560, 1.611
WCAG relative luminance: 0.42675
24-bit decimal: 12495532

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 #BEAAAC 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: 9.54:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.20:1

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

#AABEBC sits half a turn (180°) from #BEAAAC 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.

#BEAAAC #AABEBC

Analogous

#BEAAB6 and #BEB2AA sit 30° to either side of #BEAAAC. 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.

#BEAAB6 #BEAAAC #BEB2AA

Triadic

#BEAAAC, #ACBEAA and #AAACBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEAAAC #ACBEAA #AAACBE

Split complementary

Start at #BEAAAC and look across the wheel. #AABEB2 and #AAB6BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEAAAC #AABEB2 #AAB6BE

Square

Starting with #BEAAAC, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #B6BEAA, #AABEBC, then #B2AABE. Across the square, #BEAAAC pairs with #AABEBC, and #B6BEAA with #B2AABE.

#BEAAAC #B6BEAA #AABEBC #B2AABE

Tetradic

#BEAAAC and #AABEBC are opposites, as are #BEBCAA and #AAACBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEAAAC #BEBCAA #AABEBC #AAACBE

Tints

Mixing #BEAAAC with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBBBBD, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2EEEE, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEAAAC #CBBBBD #D8CCCD #E5DDDE #F2EEEE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEAAAC with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98888A, keeps 80% of the original. By #262222, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEAAAC #98888A #726667 #4C4445 #262222 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEAAAC with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2A2A3, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C8889, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEAAAC #B2A2A3 #A5999A #999192 #8C8889 #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

#BEAAAC

RGB

rgb(190 170 172)

HSL

hsl(354.000 13.333% 70.588%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEAAAC uses 190 red, 170 green and 172 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 66.7%

Blue 67.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEAAAC is 0.0% cyan, 10.5% magenta, 9.5% yellow and 25.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 10.5%

Yellow 9.5%

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 #BEAAAC 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

#BEAAAC #BBADAF #B7B1B1 #B4B4B4 #B1B7B7 #ADBBB9 #AABEBC

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEAAAC 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.

#ADADAC

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.

#B1B0AC

Tritanopia

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

#C2A9AB

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.

#B3ACAC

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.

#B5AEAC

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BEAAAC

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#AFAFAF

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.

#B7ACAD

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 0.41254

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 0.67523

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.49487 G 0.40573 B 0.41353

CIE xyY

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

x 0.329 y 0.326 Y 42.676

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 33.333 Y % 32.549

Binary RGB

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

10111110 10101010 10101100