#BEE9FC

sRGB: 190 / 233 / 252

Ancient mountains fracture ancient heavens
Immortal legends cascade across forgotten valleys
Celestial symphonies awaken sleeping galaxies

#BEE9FC belongs to the azure family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 233 green and 252 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 198.4° lands in the azure region. Its 91.2% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 86.7% 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 (16.25:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 233, 252
HSL: 198.39°, 91.18%, 86.67%
HSV / HSB: 198.39°, 24.60%, 98.82%
CMYK (approx.): 24.60%, 7.54%, 0.00%, 1.18%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 67.941, 76.252, 103.237
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 89.976, -9.729, -13.750
WCAG relative luminance: 0.76253
24-bit decimal: 12511740

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 #BEE9FC 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: 16.25:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.29:1

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

#FCD1BE sits half a turn (180°) from #BEE9FC 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.

#BEE9FC #FCD1BE

Analogous

#BEFCF0 and #BECAFC sit 30° to either side of #BEE9FC. 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.

#BEFCF0 #BEE9FC #BECAFC

Triadic

#BEE9FC, #FCBEE9 and #E9FCBE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEE9FC #FCBEE9 #E9FCBE

Split complementary

Start at #BEE9FC and look across the wheel. #FCBECA and #FCF0BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEE9FC #FCBECA #FCF0BE

Square

Starting with #BEE9FC, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #F0BEFC, #FCD1BE, then #CAFCBE. Across the square, #BEE9FC pairs with #FCD1BE, and #F0BEFC with #CAFCBE.

#BEE9FC #F0BEFC #FCD1BE #CAFCBE

Tetradic

#BEE9FC and #FCD1BE are opposites, as are #D1BEFC and #E9FCBE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEE9FC #D1BEFC #FCD1BE #E9FCBE

Tints

Mixing #BEE9FC with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBEDFD, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2FBFE, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEE9FC #CBEDFD #D8F2FD #E5F6FE #F2FBFE #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEE9FC with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98BACA, keeps 80% of the original. By #262F32, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEE9FC #98BACA #728C97 #4C5D65 #262F32 #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEE9FC with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2D4E3, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C9599, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEE9FC #B2D4E3 #A5BFCA #99AAB2 #8C9599 #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

#BEE9FC

RGB

rgb(190 233 252)

HSL

hsl(198.387 91.176% 86.667%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BEE9FC;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEE9FC uses 190 red, 233 green and 252 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 91.4%

Blue 98.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEE9FC is 24.6% cyan, 7.5% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 1.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 24.6%

Magenta 7.5%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 1.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBEEFF. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BEF in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BEE9FC when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCFFFF, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBEEFF Nearest web-safe: #CCFFFF

Gradient to complement

#BEE9FC #C8E5F2 #D3E1E7 #DDDDDD #E7D9D3 #F2D5C8 #FCD1BE

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEE9FC 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.

#DFE7FD

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.

#D5DFFC

Tritanopia

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

#ACEFEF

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.

#D4E7FD

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.

#CFE3FC

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BCEAF7

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#E2E2E2

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.

#D1E6F0

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 0.81485 B 0.97345

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 0.77859 G 0.90878 B 0.97956

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.56817 G 0.80489 B 0.95413

CIE xyY

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

x 0.275 y 0.308 Y 76.252

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 8.627 Y % 1.176

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11101001 11111100