#BEBB95

sRGB: 190 / 187 / 149

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Restless constellations shimmer across boundless heavens
Rising tides settle beneath starlight

#BEBB95 belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 187 green and 149 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 55.6° lands in the yellow region. Its 24.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 66.5% 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 (10.73:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 187, 149
HSL: 55.61°, 23.98%, 66.47%
HSV / HSB: 55.61°, 21.58%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 1.58%, 21.58%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 44.429, 48.658, 35.486
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 75.238, -5.224, 19.681
WCAG relative luminance: 0.48658
24-bit decimal: 12499861

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 #BEBB95 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: 10.73:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.96:1

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

#9598BE sits half a turn (180°) from #BEBB95 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.

#BEBB95 #9598BE

Analogous

#BEA695 and #ADBE95 sit 30° to either side of #BEBB95. 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.

#BEA695 #BEBB95 #ADBE95

Triadic

#BEBB95, #95BEBB and #BB95BE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEBB95 #95BEBB #BB95BE

Split complementary

Start at #BEBB95 and look across the wheel. #95ADBE and #A695BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEBB95 #95ADBE #A695BE

Square

Starting with #BEBB95, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #95BEA6, #9598BE, then #BE95AD. Across the square, #BEBB95 pairs with #9598BE, and #95BEA6 with #BE95AD.

#BEBB95 #95BEA6 #9598BE #BE95AD

Tetradic

#BEBB95 and #9598BE are opposites, as are #98BE95 and #BB95BE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEBB95 #98BE95 #9598BE #BB95BE

Tints

Mixing #BEBB95 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBC9AA, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F1EA, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEBB95 #CBC9AA #D8D6BF #E5E4D5 #F2F1EA #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEBB95 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #989677, keeps 80% of the original. By #26251E, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEBB95 #989677 #727059 #4C4B3C #26251E #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEBB95 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2AF91, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C8C84, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEBB95 #B2AF91 #A5A38D #999888 #8C8C84 #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

#BEBB95

RGB

rgb(190 187 149)

HSL

hsl(55.610 23.977% 66.471%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEBB95;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEBB95 uses 190 red, 187 green and 149 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 73.3%

Blue 58.4%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEBB95 is 0.0% cyan, 1.6% magenta, 21.6% yellow and 25.5% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 1.6%

Yellow 21.6%

Black 25.5%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBBB99. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BB9 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEBB95 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCC99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBBB99 Nearest web-safe: #CCCC99

Gradient to complement

#BEBB95 #B7B59C #B0AFA3 #AAAAAA #A3A4B0 #9C9EB7 #9598BE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEBB95 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.

#C2B893

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.

#C3BA96

Tritanopia

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

#C4B6B1

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.

#C1B994

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.

#C2BA96

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BFB9A0

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#B9B9B9

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.

#BCBAA8

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 0.49693 B 0.30054

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 0.74303 G 0.73373 B 0.59989

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.51172 G 0.49753 B 0.31842

CIE xyY

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

x 0.346 y 0.378 Y 48.658

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 26.667 Y % 41.569

Binary RGB

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

10111110 10111011 10010101