#BEE3BF

sRGB: 190 / 227 / 191

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Immortal legends flicker through endless evenings
Eternal flames echo beyond eternity

#BEE3BF belongs to the green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 227 green and 191 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 121.6° lands in the green region. Its 39.8% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 81.8% 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 (14.93:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 227, 191
HSL: 121.62°, 39.78%, 81.76%
HSV / HSB: 121.62°, 16.30%, 89.02%
CMYK (approx.): 16.30%, 0.00%, 15.86%, 10.98%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 58.106, 69.646, 59.674
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 86.823, -18.845, 13.622
WCAG relative luminance: 0.69647
24-bit decimal: 12510143

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 #BEE3BF 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: 14.93:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.41:1

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

#E3BEE2 sits half a turn (180°) from #BEE3BF 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.

#BEE3BF #E3BEE2

Analogous

#D0E3BE and #BEE3D2 sit 30° to either side of #BEE3BF. 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.

#D0E3BE #BEE3BF #BEE3D2

Triadic

#BEE3BF, #BFBEE3 and #E3BFBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEE3BF #BFBEE3 #E3BFBE

Split complementary

Start at #BEE3BF and look across the wheel. #D2BEE3 and #E3BECF sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEE3BF #D2BEE3 #E3BECF

Square

Starting with #BEE3BF, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #BECFE3, #E3BEE2, then #E3D2BE. Across the square, #BEE3BF pairs with #E3BEE2, and #BECFE3 with #E3D2BE.

#BEE3BF #BECFE3 #E3BEE2 #E3D2BE

Tetradic

#BEE3BF and #E3BEE2 are opposites, as are #BEE2E3 and #E3BFBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEE3BF #BEE2E3 #E3BEE2 #E3BFBE

Tints

Mixing #BEE3BF with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBE9CC, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F9F2, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEE3BF #CBE9CC #D8EED9 #E5F4E5 #F2F9F2 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEE3BF with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98B699, keeps 80% of the original. By #262D26, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEE3BF #98B699 #728873 #4C5B4C #262D26 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEE3BF with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2CFB2, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C948D, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEE3BF #B2CFB2 #A5BBA6 #99A899 #8C948D #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

#BEE3BF

RGB

rgb(190 227 191)

HSL

hsl(121.622 39.785% 81.765%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEE3BF;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEE3BF uses 190 red, 227 green and 191 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 89.0%

Blue 74.9%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEE3BF is 16.3% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 15.9% yellow and 11.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 16.3%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 15.9%

Black 11.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBDDBB. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BDB in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEE3BF when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#BEE3BF #C4DDC5 #CAD7CB #D1D1D1 #D7CAD6 #DDC4DC #E3BEE2

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEE3BF 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.

#E5DCBD

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.

#DED8C1

Tritanopia

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

#BBE1D9

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.

#D8DEBE

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.

#D5DCC0

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BFE2C9

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#D9D9D9

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.

#CCDECD

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 0.76815 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 0.77350 G 0.88587 B 0.76035

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.55988 G 0.75975 B 0.53879

CIE xyY

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

x 0.310 y 0.372 Y 69.646

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 10.980 Y % 25.098

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11100011 10111111