#BED3FF

sRGB: 190 / 211 / 255

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Electric visions flicker through endless evenings
Celestial symphonies echo beyond eternity

#BED3FF belongs to the azure family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 211 green and 255 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 220.6° lands in the azure region. Its 100.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 87.3% 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 (13.95:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 211, 255
HSL: 220.62°, 100.00%, 87.25%
HSV / HSB: 220.62°, 25.49%, 100.00%
CMYK (approx.): 25.49%, 17.25%, 0.00%, 0.00%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 62.576, 64.755, 103.813
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 84.357, 2.398, -23.803
WCAG relative luminance: 0.64756
24-bit decimal: 12506111

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 #BED3FF 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: 13.95:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.51:1

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

#FFEABE sits half a turn (180°) from #BED3FF 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.

#BED3FF #FFEABE

Analogous

#BEF3FF and #CABEFF sit 30° to either side of #BED3FF. 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.

#BEF3FF #BED3FF #CABEFF

Triadic

#BED3FF, #FFBED3 and #D3FFBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BED3FF #FFBED3 #D3FFBE

Split complementary

Start at #BED3FF and look across the wheel. #FFCABE and #F3FFBE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BED3FF #FFCABE #F3FFBE

Square

Starting with #BED3FF, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #FFBEF3, #FFEABE, then #BEFFCA. Across the square, #BED3FF pairs with #FFEABE, and #FFBEF3 with #BEFFCA.

#BED3FF #FFBEF3 #FFEABE #BEFFCA

Tetradic

#BED3FF and #FFEABE are opposites, as are #EABEFF and #D3FFBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BED3FF #EABEFF #FFEABE #D3FFBE

Tints

Mixing #BED3FF with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBDCFF, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F6FF, the mixture is 80% white.

#BED3FF #CBDCFF #D8E5FF #E5EDFF #F2F6FF #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BED3FF with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98A9CC, keeps 80% of the original. By #262A33, the mixture is 80% black.

#BED3FF #98A9CC #727F99 #4C5466 #262A33 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BED3FF with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2C2E6, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C9199, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BED3FF #B2C2E6 #A5B2CC #99A1B3 #8C9199 #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

#BED3FF

RGB

rgb(190 211 255)

HSL

hsl(220.615 100.000% 87.255%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BED3FF;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BED3FF uses 190 red, 211 green and 255 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 82.7%

Blue 100.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BED3FF is 25.5% cyan, 17.3% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 0.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 25.5%

Magenta 17.3%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 0.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBCCFF. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BCF in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BED3FF when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCFF, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBCCFF Nearest web-safe: #CCCCFF

Gradient to complement

#BED3FF #C9D7F4 #D4DBE9 #DFDFDF #E9E2D4 #F4E6C9 #FFEABE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BED3FF 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.

#C5D6FF

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.

#BFD0FE

Tritanopia

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

#ADDCE1

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.

#C2D4FF

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.

#BFD1FE

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BBD5F5

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#D2D2D2

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.

#C9D3EA

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 0.65141 B 1.00000

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 0.76058 G 0.82489 B 0.98512

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.53915 G 0.64688 B 0.96648

CIE xyY

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

x 0.271 y 0.280 Y 64.755

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 17.255 Y % 0.000

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11010011 11111111