#BEDBD3

sRGB: 190 / 219 / 211

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Electric visions shimmer across boundless heavens
Fierce revelations linger beyond yesterday

#BEDBD3 belongs to the green-cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 219 green and 211 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 163.4° lands in the green-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 (14.26:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 219, 211
HSL: 163.45°, 28.71%, 80.20%
HSV / HSB: 163.45°, 13.24%, 85.88%
CMYK (approx.): 13.24%, 0.00%, 3.65%, 14.12%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 58.322, 66.313, 71.357
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 85.156, -11.132, 0.696
WCAG relative luminance: 0.66313
24-bit decimal: 12508115

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 #BEDBD3 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: 14.26:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.47:1

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

#DBBEC6 sits half a turn (180°) from #BEDBD3 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.

#BEDBD3 #DBBEC6

Analogous

#BEDBC5 and #BED4DB sit 30° to either side of #BEDBD3. 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.

#BEDBC5 #BEDBD3 #BED4DB

Triadic

#BEDBD3, #D3BEDB and #DBD3BE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEDBD3 #D3BEDB #DBD3BE

Split complementary

Start at #BEDBD3 and look across the wheel. #DBBED5 and #DBC4BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEDBD3 #DBBED5 #DBC4BE

Square

Starting with #BEDBD3, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #C4BEDB, #DBBEC6, then #D4DBBE. Across the square, #BEDBD3 pairs with #DBBEC6, and #C4BEDB with #D4DBBE.

#BEDBD3 #C4BEDB #DBBEC6 #D4DBBE

Tetradic

#BEDBD3 and #DBBEC6 are opposites, as are #BEC6DB and #DBD3BE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEDBD3 #BEC6DB #DBBEC6 #DBD3BE

Tints

Mixing #BEDBD3 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBE2DC, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F8F6, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEDBD3 #CBE2DC #D8E9E5 #E5F1ED #F2F8F6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEDBD3 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98AFA9, keeps 80% of the original. By #262C2A, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEDBD3 #98AFA9 #72837F #4C5854 #262C2A #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEDBD3 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2C9C2, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C9291, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEDBD3 #B2C9C2 #A5B7B2 #99A4A1 #8C9291 #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

#BEDBD3

RGB

rgb(190 219 211)

HSL

hsl(163.448 28.713% 80.196%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEDBD3;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEDBD3 uses 190 red, 219 green and 211 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 85.9%

Blue 82.7%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEDBD3 is 13.2% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 3.7% yellow and 14.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 13.2%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 3.7%

Black 14.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBDDCC. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BDC in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEDBD3 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#BEDBD3 #C3D6D1 #C8D1CF #CDCDCD #D1C8CA #D6C3C8 #DBBEC6

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEDBD3 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.

#D9D7D3

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.

#D3D3D4

Tritanopia

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

#B7DCD8

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.

#D0D8D3

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.

#CDD6D3

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BEDBD5

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#D5D5D5

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.

#CAD8D4

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 0.70838 B 0.65141

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 0.76692 G 0.85536 B 0.82846

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.54926 G 0.70195 B 0.65320

CIE xyY

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

x 0.298 y 0.338 Y 66.313

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 14.118 Y % 17.255

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11011011 11010011