#BED4BF

sRGB: 190 / 212 / 191

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Electric visions breathe beneath silver clouds
Eternal flames echo beyond eternity

#BED4BF belongs to the green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 212 green and 191 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 122.7° lands in the green region. Its 20.4% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 78.8% 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 (13.36:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 212, 191
HSL: 122.73°, 20.37%, 78.82%
HSV / HSB: 122.73°, 10.38%, 83.14%
CMYK (approx.): 10.38%, 0.00%, 9.91%, 16.86%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 54.180, 61.795, 58.365
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 82.804, -11.303, 7.898
WCAG relative luminance: 0.61796
24-bit decimal: 12506303

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 #BED4BF 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: 13.36:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.57:1

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

#D4BED3 sits half a turn (180°) from #BED4BF 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.

#BED4BF #D4BED3

Analogous

#C8D4BE and #BED4CA sit 30° to either side of #BED4BF. 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.

#C8D4BE #BED4BF #BED4CA

Triadic

#BED4BF, #BFBED4 and #D4BFBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BED4BF #BFBED4 #D4BFBE

Split complementary

Start at #BED4BF and look across the wheel. #CABED4 and #D4BEC8 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BED4BF #CABED4 #D4BEC8

Square

Starting with #BED4BF, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BEC8D4, #D4BED3, then #D4CABE. Across the square, #BED4BF pairs with #D4BED3, and #BEC8D4 with #D4CABE.

#BED4BF #BEC8D4 #D4BED3 #D4CABE

Tetradic

#BED4BF and #D4BED3 are opposites, as are #BED3D4 and #D4BFBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BED4BF #BED3D4 #D4BED3 #D4BFBE

Tints

Mixing #BED4BF with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBDDCC, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F6F2, the mixture is 80% white.

#BED4BF #CBDDCC #D8E5D9 #E5EEE5 #F2F6F2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BED4BF with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98AA99, keeps 80% of the original. By #262A26, the mixture is 80% black.

#BED4BF #98AA99 #727F73 #4C554C #262A26 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BED4BF with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2C3B2, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C918D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BED4BF #B2C3B2 #A5B2A6 #99A299 #8C918D #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

#BED4BF

RGB

rgb(190 212 191)

HSL

hsl(122.727 20.370% 78.824%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BED4BF;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BED4BF uses 190 red, 212 green and 191 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 83.1%

Blue 74.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BED4BF is 10.4% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 9.9% yellow and 16.9% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 10.4%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 9.9%

Black 16.9%

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 #BED4BF 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

#BED4BF #C2D0C2 #C5CDC6 #C9C9C9 #CDC5CC #D0C2D0 #D4BED3

Color vision previews

Compare how #BED4BF 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.

#D5D0BE

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.

#D1CDC0

Tritanopia

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

#BCD3CE

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.

#CDD1BF

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.

#CCCFC0

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BFD3C4

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.

#C6D1C7

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 0.65837 B 0.52100

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 0.76136 G 0.82870 B 0.75531

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.54039 G 0.65361 B 0.53084

CIE xyY

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

x 0.311 y 0.354 Y 61.795

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 16.863 Y % 25.098

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11010100 10111111