#BED2CC

sRGB: 190 / 210 / 204

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Electric visions tremble in empty gardens
Boundless spirits awaken sleeping galaxies

#BED2CC belongs to the green-cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 210 green and 204 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 162.0° lands in the green-cyan region. Its 18.2% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 78.4% 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 (13.28:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 210, 204
HSL: 162.00°, 18.18%, 78.43%
HSV / HSB: 162.00°, 9.52%, 82.35%
CMYK (approx.): 9.52%, 0.00%, 2.86%, 17.65%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 55.178, 61.399, 66.073
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 82.593, -7.862, 0.676
WCAG relative luminance: 0.61400
24-bit decimal: 12505804

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 #BED2CC 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: 13.28:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.58:1

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

#D2BEC4 sits half a turn (180°) from #BED2CC 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.

#BED2CC #D2BEC4

Analogous

#BED2C2 and #BECED2 sit 30° to either side of #BED2CC. 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.

#BED2C2 #BED2CC #BECED2

Triadic

#BED2CC, #CCBED2 and #D2CCBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BED2CC #CCBED2 #D2CCBE

Split complementary

Start at #BED2CC and look across the wheel. #D2BECE and #D2C2BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BED2CC #D2BECE #D2C2BE

Square

Starting with #BED2CC, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #C2BED2, #D2BEC4, then #CED2BE. Across the square, #BED2CC pairs with #D2BEC4, and #C2BED2 with #CED2BE.

#BED2CC #C2BED2 #D2BEC4 #CED2BE

Tetradic

#BED2CC and #D2BEC4 are opposites, as are #BEC4D2 and #D2CCBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BED2CC #BEC4D2 #D2BEC4 #D2CCBE

Tints

Mixing #BED2CC with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBDBD6, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F6F5, the mixture is 80% white.

#BED2CC #CBDBD6 #D8E4E0 #E5EDEB #F2F6F5 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BED2CC with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98A8A3, keeps 80% of the original. By #262A29, the mixture is 80% black.

#BED2CC #98A8A3 #727E7A #4C5452 #262A29 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BED2CC with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2C2BD, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C908F, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BED2CC #B2C2BD #A5B1AE #99A19E #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

#BED2CC

RGB

rgb(190 210 204)

HSL

hsl(162.000 18.182% 78.431%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BED2CC;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BED2CC uses 190 red, 210 green and 204 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 82.4%

Blue 80.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BED2CC is 9.5% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 2.9% yellow and 17.6% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 9.5%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 2.9%

Black 17.6%

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 #BED2CC 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

#BED2CC #C1CFCB #C5CBC9 #C8C8C8 #CBC5C7 #CFC1C5 #D2BEC4

Color vision previews

Compare how #BED2CC 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.

#D0CFCC

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.

#CCCCCC

Tritanopia

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

#BAD3D0

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.

#CAD0CC

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.

#C8CECC

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BED2CD

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#CECECE

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.

#C6D0CD

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 0.64448 B 0.60383

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 0.75980 G 0.82108 B 0.80084

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.53792 G 0.64018 B 0.60525

CIE xyY

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

x 0.302 y 0.336 Y 61.399

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 17.647 Y % 20.000

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11010010 11001100