#BEBED3

sRGB: 190 / 190 / 211

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Restless constellations transcend the boundaries of time
Fierce revelations linger beyond yesterday

#BEBED3 belongs to the blue family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 190 green and 211 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 240.0° lands in the blue region. Its 19.3% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 78.6% 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 (11.50:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 190, 211
HSL: 240.00°, 19.27%, 78.63%
HSV / HSB: 240.00°, 9.95%, 82.75%
CMYK (approx.): 9.95%, 9.95%, 0.00%, 17.25%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 51.404, 52.477, 69.051
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 77.565, 4.074, -10.499
WCAG relative luminance: 0.52477
24-bit decimal: 12500691

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 #BEBED3 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: 11.50:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.83:1

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

#D3D3BE sits half a turn (180°) from #BEBED3 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.

#BEBED3 #D3D3BE

Analogous

#BEC9D3 and #C9BED3 sit 30° to either side of #BEBED3. 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.

#BEC9D3 #BEBED3 #C9BED3

Triadic

#BEBED3, #D3BEBE and #BED3BE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEBED3 #D3BEBE #BED3BE

Split complementary

Start at #BEBED3 and look across the wheel. #D3C9BE and #C9D3BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEBED3 #D3C9BE #C9D3BE

Square

Starting with #BEBED3, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #D3BEC9, #D3D3BE, then #BED3C9. Across the square, #BEBED3 pairs with #D3D3BE, and #D3BEC9 with #BED3C9.

#BEBED3 #D3BEC9 #D3D3BE #BED3C9

Tetradic

#BEBED3 and #D3D3BE are opposites, as are #D3BED3 and #BED3BE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEBED3 #D3BED3 #D3D3BE #BED3BE

Tints

Mixing #BEBED3 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBCBDC, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F2F6, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEBED3 #CBCBDC #D8D8E5 #E5E5ED #F2F2F6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEBED3 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #9898A9, keeps 80% of the original. By #26262A, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEBED3 #9898A9 #72727F #4C4C54 #26262A #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEBED3 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2B2C2, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C8C91, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEBED3 #B2B2C2 #A5A5B2 #9999A1 #8C8C91 #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

#BEBED3

RGB

rgb(190 190 211)

HSL

hsl(240.000 19.266% 78.627%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEBED3;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEBED3 uses 190 red, 190 green and 211 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 74.5%

Blue 82.7%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEBED3 is 10.0% cyan, 10.0% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 17.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 10.0%

Magenta 10.0%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 17.3%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBBBCC. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BBC in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEBED3 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBBBCC Nearest web-safe: #CCCCCC

Gradient to complement

#BEBED3 #C2C2D0 #C5C5CC #C9C9C9 #CCCCC5 #D0D0C2 #D3D3BE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEBED3 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.

#B9C0D4

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.

#B9BFD2

Tritanopia

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

#BAC1C5

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.

#BBBFD3

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.

#BABFD3

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BDBFCE

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#C0C0C0

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.

#BFBFCA

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 0.51492 B 0.65141

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 0.74510 G 0.74510 B 0.82052

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.51492 G 0.51492 B 0.63919

CIE xyY

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

x 0.297 y 0.303 Y 52.477

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 25.490 Y % 17.255

Binary RGB

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

10111110 10111110 11010011