#BFDBD5

sRGB: 191 / 219 / 213

Ancient mountains reshape eternity
Electric visions shimmer across boundless heavens
Fierce revelations settle beneath starlight

#BFDBD5 belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 191 red, 219 green and 213 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 167.1° lands in the cyan region. Its 28.0% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 80.4% 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 (14.31:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 191, 219, 213
HSL: 167.14°, 28.00%, 80.39%
HSV / HSB: 167.14°, 12.79%, 85.88%
CMYK (approx.): 12.79%, 0.00%, 2.74%, 14.12%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 58.825, 66.543, 72.698
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 85.273, -10.418, -0.184
WCAG relative luminance: 0.66543
24-bit decimal: 12573653

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 #BFDBD5 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: 14.31:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.47:1

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

#DBBFC5 sits half a turn (180°) from #BFDBD5 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.

#BFDBD5 #DBBFC5

Analogous

#BFDBC7 and #BFD3DB sit 30° to either side of #BFDBD5. 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.

#BFDBC7 #BFDBD5 #BFD3DB

Triadic

#BFDBD5, #D5BFDB and #DBD5BF are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#BFDBD5 #D5BFDB #DBD5BF

Split complementary

Start at #BFDBD5 and look across the wheel. #DBBFD3 and #DBC7BF sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#BFDBD5 #DBBFD3 #DBC7BF

Square

Starting with #BFDBD5, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #C7BFDB, #DBBFC5, then #D3DBBF. Across the square, #BFDBD5 pairs with #DBBFC5, and #C7BFDB with #D3DBBF.

#BFDBD5 #C7BFDB #DBBFC5 #D3DBBF

Tetradic

#BFDBD5 and #DBBFC5 are opposites, as are #BFC5DB and #DBD5BF. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#BFDBD5 #BFC5DB #DBBFC5 #DBD5BF

Tints

Mixing #BFDBD5 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #CCE2DD, keeps 80% of the original. By #F2F8F7, the mixture is 80% white.

#BFDBD5 #CCE2DD #D9E9E6 #E5F1EE #F2F8F7 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #BFDBD5 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #99AFAA, keeps 80% of the original. By #262C2B, the mixture is 80% black.

#BFDBD5 #99AFAA #738380 #4C5855 #262C2B #000000

Tones

Mixing #BFDBD5 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #B2C9C4, keeps 80% of the original. By #8D9291, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#BFDBD5 #B2C9C4 #A6B7B3 #99A4A2 #8D9291 #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

#BFDBD5

RGB

rgb(191 219 213)

HSL

hsl(167.143 28.000% 80.392%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #BFDBD5;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#BFDBD5 uses 191 red, 219 green and 213 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 74.9%

Green 85.9%

Blue 83.5%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #BFDBD5 is 12.8% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 2.7% yellow and 14.1% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 12.8%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 2.7%

Black 14.1%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #BBDDDD. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #BDD in CSS. For a modern design, keep #BFDBD5 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCCCCC, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

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

Gradient to complement

#BFDBD5 #C4D6D2 #C8D2D0 #CDCDCD #D2C8CA #D6C4C8 #DBBFC5

Color vision previews

Compare how #BFDBD5 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.

#D8D7D5

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.

#D3D3D6

Tritanopia

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

#B8DCD9

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.

#D0D8D5

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.

#CDD6D5

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#BFDBD6

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#D5D5D5

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.

#CAD8D5

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 0.70838 B 0.66539

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 0.77003 G 0.85547 B 0.83565

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.55426 G 0.70216 B 0.66603

CIE xyY

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

x 0.297 y 0.336 Y 66.543

CMY

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

C % 25.098 M % 14.118 Y % 16.471

Binary RGB

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

10111111 11011011 11010101