#BEC4BD

sRGB: 190 / 196 / 189

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Majestic waterfalls breathe beneath silver clouds
Eternal flames shatter the chains of fate

#BEC4BD belongs to the green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 196 green and 189 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 111.4° lands in the green region. Its 5.6% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 75.5% 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 (11.82:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 196, 189
HSL: 111.43°, 5.60%, 75.49%
HSV / HSB: 111.43°, 3.57%, 76.86%
CMYK (approx.): 3.06%, 0.00%, 3.57%, 23.14%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 50.158, 54.101, 55.946
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 78.521, -3.362, 2.789
WCAG relative luminance: 0.54101
24-bit decimal: 12502205

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 #BEC4BD 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: 11.82:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.78:1

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

#C3BDC4 sits half a turn (180°) from #BEC4BD 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.

#BEC4BD #C3BDC4

Analogous

#C2C4BD and #BDC4C0 sit 30° to either side of #BEC4BD. 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.

#C2C4BD #BEC4BD #BDC4C0

Triadic

#BEC4BD, #BDBEC4 and #C4BDBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEC4BD #BDBEC4 #C4BDBE

Split complementary

Start at #BEC4BD and look across the wheel. #C0BDC4 and #C4BDC2 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEC4BD #C0BDC4 #C4BDC2

Square

Starting with #BEC4BD, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BDC2C4, #C3BDC4, then #C4C0BD. Across the square, #BEC4BD pairs with #C3BDC4, and #BDC2C4 with #C4C0BD.

#BEC4BD #BDC2C4 #C3BDC4 #C4C0BD

Tetradic

#BEC4BD and #C3BDC4 are opposites, as are #BDC4C3 and #C4BDBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEC4BD #BDC4C3 #C3BDC4 #C4BDBE

Tints

Mixing #BEC4BD with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBD0CA, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F3F2, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEC4BD #CBD0CA #D8DCD7 #E5E7E5 #F2F3F2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEC4BD with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #989D97, keeps 80% of the original. By #262726, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEC4BD #989D97 #727671 #4C4E4C #262726 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEC4BD with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2B6B1, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C8E8C, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEC4BD #B2B6B1 #A5A9A5 #999B98 #8C8E8C #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

#BEC4BD

RGB

rgb(190 196 189)

HSL

hsl(111.429 5.600% 75.490%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEC4BD;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEC4BD uses 190 red, 196 green and 189 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 76.9%

Blue 74.1%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEC4BD is 3.1% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 3.6% yellow and 23.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 3.1%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 3.6%

Black 23.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBCCBB. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BCB in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEC4BD when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#BEC4BD #BFC3BE #C0C2BF #C1C1C1 #C1BFC2 #C2BEC3 #C3BDC4

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEC4BD 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.

#C5C3BD

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.

#C3C2BD

Tritanopia

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

#BEC3C2

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.

#C2C3BD

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.

#C2C3BD

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BEC4BF

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#C2C2C2

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.

#C0C3C0

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 0.55201 B 0.50888

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 0.74935 G 0.76786 B 0.74328

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.52150 G 0.55078 B 0.51211

CIE xyY

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

x 0.313 y 0.338 Y 54.101

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 23.137 Y % 25.882

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11000100 10111101