#BFB980

sRGB: 191 / 185 / 128

Ancient mountains reshape eternity
Restless constellations cascade across forgotten valleys
Golden visions vanish without farewell

#BFB980 belongs to the yellow family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 191 red, 185 green and 128 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 54.3° lands in the yellow region. Its 33.0% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 62.5% 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 (10.47:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 191, 185, 128
HSL: 54.29°, 32.98%, 62.55%
HSV / HSB: 54.29°, 32.98%, 74.90%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 3.14%, 32.98%, 25.10%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 42.729, 47.333, 27.308
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 74.402, -6.633, 29.748
WCAG relative luminance: 0.47333
24-bit decimal: 12564864

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 #BFB980 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: 10.47:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.01:1

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

#8086BF sits half a turn (180°) from #BFB980 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.

#BFB980 #8086BF

Analogous

#BF9A80 and #A6BF80 sit 30° to either side of #BFB980. 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.

#BF9A80 #BFB980 #A6BF80

Triadic

#BFB980, #80BFB9 and #B980BF are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BFB980 #80BFB9 #B980BF

Split complementary

Start at #BFB980 and look across the wheel. #80A6BF and #9980BF sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BFB980 #80A6BF #9980BF

Square

Starting with #BFB980, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #80BF9A, #8086BF, then #BF80A6. Across the square, #BFB980 pairs with #8086BF, and #80BF9A with #BF80A6.

#BFB980 #80BF9A #8086BF #BF80A6

Tetradic

#BFB980 and #8086BF are opposites, as are #86BF80 and #B980BF. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BFB980 #86BF80 #8086BF #B980BF

Tints

Mixing #BFB980 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CCC799, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F1E6, the mixture is 80% white.

#BFB980 #CCC799 #D9D5B3 #E5E3CC #F2F1E6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BFB980 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #999466, keeps 80% of the original. By #26251A, the mixture is 80% black.

#BFB980 #999466 #736F4D #4C4A33 #26251A #000000

Tones

Mixing #BFB980 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2AE80, keeps 80% of the original. By #8D8B80, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BFB980 #B2AE80 #A6A280 #999780 #8D8B80 #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

#BFB980

RGB

rgb(191 185 128)

HSL

hsl(54.286 32.984% 62.549%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BFB980;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BFB980 uses 191 red, 185 green and 128 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.9%

Green 72.5%

Blue 50.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BFB980 is 0.0% cyan, 3.1% magenta, 33.0% yellow and 25.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 3.1%

Yellow 33.0%

Black 25.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBBB88. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BB8 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BFB980 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCC99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #BBBB88 Nearest web-safe: #CCCC99

Gradient to complement

#BFB980 #B5B18B #AAA895 #A0A0A0 #9597AA #8B8FB5 #8086BF

Color vision previews

Compare how #BFB980 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.

#C3B57C

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.

#C5B982

Tritanopia

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

#C8B2AA

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.

#C2B77E

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.

#C3B881

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C1B791

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#B7B7B7

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.

#BBB89F

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 0.52100 G 0.48515 B 0.21586

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 0.74491 G 0.72629 B 0.52769

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.51463 G 0.48634 B 0.24057

CIE xyY

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

x 0.364 y 0.403 Y 47.333

CMY

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

C % 25.098 M % 27.451 Y % 49.804

Binary RGB

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

10111111 10111001 10000000