#BED4DB

sRGB: 190 / 212 / 219

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Electric visions breathe beneath silver clouds
Fierce revelations defy the passing ages

#BED4DB belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 212 green and 219 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 194.5° lands in the cyan region. Its 28.7% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 80.2% 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 (13.63:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 212, 219
HSL: 194.48°, 28.71%, 80.20%
HSV / HSB: 194.48°, 13.24%, 85.88%
CMYK (approx.): 13.24%, 3.20%, 0.00%, 14.12%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 57.562, 63.148, 76.176
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 83.520, -5.936, -5.949
WCAG relative luminance: 0.63149
24-bit decimal: 12506331

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 #BED4DB 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: 13.63:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.54:1

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

#DBC5BE sits half a turn (180°) from #BED4DB 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.

#BED4DB #DBC5BE

Analogous

#BEDBD3 and #BEC6DB sit 30° to either side of #BED4DB. 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.

#BEDBD3 #BED4DB #BEC6DB

Triadic

#BED4DB, #DBBED4 and #D4DBBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BED4DB #DBBED4 #D4DBBE

Split complementary

Start at #BED4DB and look across the wheel. #DBBEC6 and #DBD3BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BED4DB #DBBEC6 #DBD3BE

Square

Starting with #BED4DB, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #D3BEDB, #DBC5BE, then #C6DBBE. Across the square, #BED4DB pairs with #DBC5BE, and #D3BEDB with #C6DBBE.

#BED4DB #D3BEDB #DBC5BE #C6DBBE

Tetradic

#BED4DB and #DBC5BE are opposites, as are #C5BEDB and #D4DBBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BED4DB #C5BEDB #DBC5BE #D4DBBE

Tints

Mixing #BED4DB with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBDDE2, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F6F8, the mixture is 80% white.

#BED4DB #CBDDE2 #D8E5E9 #E5EEF1 #F2F6F8 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BED4DB with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98AAAF, keeps 80% of the original. By #262A2C, the mixture is 80% black.

#BED4DB #98AAAF #727F83 #4C5558 #262A2C #000000

Tones

Mixing #BED4DB with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2C3C9, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C9192, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BED4DB #B2C3C9 #A5B2B7 #99A2A4 #8C9192 #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

#BED4DB

RGB

rgb(190 212 219)

HSL

hsl(194.483 28.713% 80.196%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BED4DB;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BED4DB uses 190 red, 212 green and 219 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 83.1%

Blue 85.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BED4DB is 13.2% cyan, 3.2% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 14.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 13.2%

Magenta 3.2%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 14.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBCCDD. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BCD in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BED4DB when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#BED4DB #C3D2D6 #C8CFD1 #CDCDCD #D1CAC8 #D6C8C3 #DBC5BE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BED4DB 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.

#CFD2DB

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.

#CBCEDB

Tritanopia

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

#B6D7D6

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.

#C9D3DB

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.

#C7D0DB

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BDD4D9

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#D0D0D0

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.

#C7D2D6

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 0.70838

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 0.85509

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.54039 G 0.65361 B 0.70145

CIE xyY

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

x 0.292 y 0.321 Y 63.148

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 16.863 Y % 14.118

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11010100 11011011