#BEBBAB

sRGB: 190 / 187 / 171

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Restless constellations shimmer across boundless heavens
Brilliant stars defy the passing ages

#BEBBAB belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 187 green and 171 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 50.5° lands in the yellow region. Its 12.8% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 70.8% 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 (10.89:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 187, 171
HSL: 50.53°, 12.75%, 70.78%
HSV / HSB: 50.53°, 10.00%, 74.51%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 1.58%, 10.00%, 25.49%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 46.354, 49.428, 45.628
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 75.717, -1.761, 8.478
WCAG relative luminance: 0.49428
24-bit decimal: 12499883

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 #BEBBAB 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: 10.89:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.93:1

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

#ABAEBE sits half a turn (180°) from #BEBBAB 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.

#BEBBAB #ABAEBE

Analogous

#BEB2AB and #B8BEAB sit 30° to either side of #BEBBAB. 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.

#BEB2AB #BEBBAB #B8BEAB

Triadic

#BEBBAB, #ABBEBB and #BBABBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEBBAB #ABBEBB #BBABBE

Split complementary

Start at #BEBBAB and look across the wheel. #ABB8BE and #B1ABBE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEBBAB #ABB8BE #B1ABBE

Square

Starting with #BEBBAB, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #ABBEB2, #ABAEBE, then #BEABB8. Across the square, #BEBBAB pairs with #ABAEBE, and #ABBEB2 with #BEABB8.

#BEBBAB #ABBEB2 #ABAEBE #BEABB8

Tetradic

#BEBBAB and #ABAEBE are opposites, as are #AEBEAB and #BBABBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEBBAB #AEBEAB #ABAEBE #BBABBE

Tints

Mixing #BEBBAB with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBC9BC, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F1EE, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEBBAB #CBC9BC #D8D6CD #E5E4DD #F2F1EE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEBBAB with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #989689, keeps 80% of the original. By #262522, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEBBAB #989689 #727067 #4C4B44 #262522 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEBBAB with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2AFA2, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C8C89, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEBBAB #B2AFA2 #A5A39A #999891 #8C8C89 #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

#BEBBAB

RGB

rgb(190 187 171)

HSL

hsl(50.526 12.752% 70.784%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEBBAB uses 190 red, 187 green and 171 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 73.3%

Blue 67.1%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEBBAB is 0.0% cyan, 1.6% magenta, 10.0% 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 10.0%

Black 25.5%

Nearby colors

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

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

Gradient to complement

#BEBBAB #BBB9AE #B8B7B1 #B5B5B5 #B1B2B8 #AEB0BB #ABAEBE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEBBAB 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.

#BFBAAA

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.

#BFBBAB

Tritanopia

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

#C1B9B6

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.

#BEBAAB

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.

#BFBBAB

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BFBAAF

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#BBBBBB

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.

#BCBBB3

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 0.40724

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 0.67674

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.51172 G 0.49753 B 0.41557

CIE xyY

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

x 0.328 y 0.350 Y 49.428

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 26.667 Y % 32.941

Binary RGB

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

10111110 10111011 10101011