#BECFCD

sRGB: 190 / 207 / 205
Color name: Babbling Brook

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Majestic waterfalls transform the fabric of existence
Boundless spirits shatter the chains of fate

The hex code for Babbling Brook is #BECFCD. It belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 207 green and 205 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 172.9° lands in the cyan region. Its 15.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 77.8% 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 (13.00:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 207, 205
HSL: 172.94°, 15.04%, 77.84%
HSV / HSB: 172.94°, 8.21%, 81.18%
CMYK (approx.): 8.21%, 0.00%, 0.97%, 18.82%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 54.565, 59.980, 66.462
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 81.827, -6.113, -0.976
WCAG relative luminance: 0.59981
24-bit decimal: 12505037

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 #BECFCD 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: 13.00:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.62:1

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

#CFBEC0 sits half a turn (180°) from #BECFCD 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.

#BECFCD #CFBEC0

Analogous

#BECFC5 and #BEC9CF sit 30° to either side of #BECFCD. 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.

#BECFC5 #BECFCD #BEC9CF

Triadic

#BECFCD, #CDBECF and #CFCDBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BECFCD #CDBECF #CFCDBE

Split complementary

Start at #BECFCD and look across the wheel. #CFBEC8 and #CFC5BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BECFCD #CFBEC8 #CFC5BE

Square

Starting with #BECFCD, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #C5BECF, #CFBEC0, then #C9CFBE. Across the square, #BECFCD pairs with #CFBEC0, and #C5BECF with #C9CFBE.

#BECFCD #C5BECF #CFBEC0 #C9CFBE

Tetradic

#BECFCD and #CFBEC0 are opposites, as are #BEC0CF and #CFCDBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BECFCD #BEC0CF #CFBEC0 #CFCDBE

Tints

Mixing #BECFCD with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBD9D7, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F5F5, the mixture is 80% white.

#BECFCD #CBD9D7 #D8E2E1 #E5ECEB #F2F5F5 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BECFCD with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98A6A4, keeps 80% of the original. By #262929, the mixture is 80% black.

#BECFCD #98A6A4 #727C7B #4C5352 #262929 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BECFCD with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2BFBE, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C908F, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BECFCD #B2BFBE #A5AFAE #99A09F #8C908F #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

#BECFCD

RGB

rgb(190 207 205)

HSL

hsl(172.941 15.044% 77.843%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BECFCD uses 190 red, 207 green and 205 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 81.2%

Blue 80.4%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BECFCD is 8.2% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 1.0% yellow and 18.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 8.2%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 1.0%

Black 18.8%

Nearby colors

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

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

Gradient to complement

#BECFCD #C1CCCB #C4C9C9 #C7C7C7 #C9C4C4 #CCC1C2 #CFBEC0

Color vision previews

Compare how #BECFCD 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.

#CDCDCD

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.

#C9CACD

Tritanopia

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

#BAD0CE

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.

#C8CDCD

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.

#C6CCCD

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BECFCD

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#CBCBCB

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.

#C5CDCC

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 0.62396 B 0.61050

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 0.75750 G 0.80967 B 0.80354

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.53428 G 0.62034 B 0.60984

CIE xyY

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

x 0.301 y 0.331 Y 59.980

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 18.824 Y % 19.608

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11001111 11001101