#BEEFEA

sRGB: 190 / 239 / 234

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#BEEFEA belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 190 red, 239 green and 234 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 173.9° lands in the cyan region. Its 60.5% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 84.1% 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 (16.72:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 190, 239, 234
HSL: 173.88°, 60.49%, 84.12%
HSV / HSB: 173.88°, 20.50%, 93.73%
CMYK (approx.): 20.50%, 0.00%, 2.09%, 6.27%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 66.950, 78.619, 89.492
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 91.062, -16.594, -2.741
WCAG relative luminance: 0.78621
24-bit decimal: 12513258

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 #BEEFEA 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: 16.72:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.26:1

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

#EFBEC3 sits half a turn (180°) from #BEEFEA 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.

#BEEFEA #EFBEC3

Analogous

#BEEFD2 and #BEDBEF sit 30° to either side of #BEEFEA. 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.

#BEEFD2 #BEEFEA #BEDBEF

Triadic

#BEEFEA, #EABEEF and #EFEABE are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BEEFEA #EABEEF #EFEABE

Split complementary

Start at #BEEFEA and look across the wheel. #EFBEDB and #EFD2BE sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BEEFEA #EFBEDB #EFD2BE

Square

Starting with #BEEFEA, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #D2BEEF, #EFBEC3, then #DBEFBE. Across the square, #BEEFEA pairs with #EFBEC3, and #D2BEEF with #DBEFBE.

#BEEFEA #D2BEEF #EFBEC3 #DBEFBE

Tetradic

#BEEFEA and #EFBEC3 are opposites, as are #BEC3EF and #EFEABE. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BEEFEA #BEC3EF #EFBEC3 #EFEABE

Tints

Mixing #BEEFEA with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CBF2EE, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2FCFB, the mixture is 80% white.

#BEEFEA #CBF2EE #D8F5F2 #E5F9F7 #F2FCFB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BEEFEA with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #98BFBB, keeps 80% of the original. By #26302F, the mixture is 80% black.

#BEEFEA #98BFBB #728F8C #4C605E #26302F #000000

Tones

Mixing #BEEFEA with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2D9D5, keeps 80% of the original. By #8C9695, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BEEFEA #B2D9D5 #A5C3C0 #99ACAA #8C9695 #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

#BEEFEA

RGB

rgb(190 239 234)

HSL

hsl(173.878 60.494% 84.118%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BEEFEA uses 190 red, 239 green and 234 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.5%

Green 93.7%

Blue 91.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BEEFEA is 20.5% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 2.1% yellow and 6.3% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 20.5%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 2.1%

Black 6.3%

Nearby colors

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

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

Gradient to complement

#BEEFEA #C6E7E4 #CEDFDD #D7D7D7 #DFCED0 #E7C6CA #EFBEC3

Color vision previews

Compare how #BEEFEA 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.

#E9EAEA

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.

#E0E2EB

Tritanopia

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

#B0F2ED

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.

#DBEBEA

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.

#D7E7EB

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BDEFEB

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#E5E5E5

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.

#D3EAE8

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 0.86316 B 0.82279

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 0.78381 G 0.93170 B 0.91650

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.57674 G 0.85160 B 0.82045

CIE xyY

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

x 0.285 y 0.334 Y 78.619

CMY

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

C % 25.490 M % 6.275 Y % 8.235

Binary RGB

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

10111110 11101111 11101010