#BEE685

sRGB: 190 / 230 / 133

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Immortal legends blossom beneath falling stars
Golden visions settle beneath starlight

#BEE685 belongs to the yellow-green family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 230 green and 133 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 84.7° lands in the yellow-green region. Its 66.0% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 71.2% 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 (14.85:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 230, 133
HSL: 84.74°, 65.99%, 71.18%
HSV / HSB: 84.74°, 42.17%, 90.20%
CMYK (approx.): 17.39%, 0.00%, 42.17%, 9.80%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 53.763, 69.234, 32.722
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 86.620, -28.813, 42.975
WCAG relative luminance: 0.69234
24-bit decimal: 12510853

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 #BEE685 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: 14.85:1

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

#AD85E6 sits half a turn (180°) from #BEE685 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.

#BEE685 #AD85E6

Analogous

#E6DE85 and #8DE685 sit 30° to either side of #BEE685. 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.

#E6DE85 #BEE685 #8DE685

Triadic

#BEE685, #85BEE6 and #E685BE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEE685 #85BEE6 #E685BE

Split complementary

Start at #BEE685 and look across the wheel. #858DE6 and #DE85E6 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEE685 #858DE6 #DE85E6

Square

Starting with #BEE685, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #85E6DE, #AD85E6, then #E6858D. Across the square, #BEE685 pairs with #AD85E6, and #85E6DE with #E6858D.

#BEE685 #85E6DE #AD85E6 #E6858D

Tetradic

#BEE685 and #AD85E6 are opposites, as are #85E6AD and #E685BE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEE685 #85E6AD #AD85E6 #E685BE

Tints

Mixing #BEE685 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBEB9D, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2FAE7, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEE685 #CBEB9D #D8F0B6 #E5F5CE #F2FAE7 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEE685 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98B86A, keeps 80% of the original. By #262E1B, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEE685 #98B86A #728A50 #4C5C35 #262E1B #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEE685 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2D284, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C9481, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEE685 #B2D284 #A5BD83 #99A982 #8C9481 #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

#BEE685

RGB

rgb(190 230 133)

HSL

hsl(84.742 65.986% 71.176%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEE685;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEE685 uses 190 red, 230 green and 133 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 90.2%

Blue 52.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEE685 is 17.4% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 42.2% yellow and 9.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 17.4%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 42.2%

Black 9.8%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBEE88. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BE8 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEE685 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCFF99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBEE88 Nearest web-safe: #CCFF99

Gradient to complement

#BEE685 #BBD695 #B8C6A5 #B6B6B6 #B3A5C6 #B095D6 #AD85E6

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEE685 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.

#EFDA7D

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.

#E9D88A

Tritanopia

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

#C3DECF

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.

#DFDE82

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.

#DDDD88

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C1E3A5

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.

#CCE0B5

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 0.79130 B 0.23455

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 0.77603 G 0.89732 B 0.56540

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.56399 G 0.78212 B 0.27965

CIE xyY

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

x 0.345 y 0.445 Y 69.234

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 9.804 Y % 47.843

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11100110 10000101