#CDACAF

sRGB: 205 / 172 / 175

Celestial flames command forgotten kingdoms
Sacred blossoms thunder through timeless canyons
Brilliant stars echo beyond eternity

#CDACAF belongs to the red family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 205 red, 172 green and 175 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 354.5° lands in the red region. Its 24.8% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 73.9% 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 (10.12:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 205, 172, 175
HSL: 354.55°, 24.81%, 73.92%
HSV / HSB: 354.55°, 16.10%, 80.39%
CMYK (approx.): 0.00%, 16.10%, 14.63%, 19.61%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 47.665, 45.580, 46.846
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 73.272, 12.452, 2.943
WCAG relative luminance: 0.45579
24-bit decimal: 13479087

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 #CDACAF 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: 10.12:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 2.08:1

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

#ACCDCA sits half a turn (180°) from #CDACAF 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.

#CDACAF #ACCDCA

Analogous

#CDACC0 and #CDBAAC sit 30° to either side of #CDACAF. 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.

#CDACC0 #CDACAF #CDBAAC

Triadic

#CDACAF, #AFCDAC and #ACAFCD are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#CDACAF #AFCDAC #ACAFCD

Split complementary

Start at #CDACAF and look across the wheel. #ACCDBA and #ACC0CD sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#CDACAF #ACCDBA #ACC0CD

Square

Starting with #CDACAF, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #C0CDAC, #ACCDCA, then #BAACCD. Across the square, #CDACAF pairs with #ACCDCA, and #C0CDAC with #BAACCD.

#CDACAF #C0CDAC #ACCDCA #BAACCD

Tetradic

#CDACAF and #ACCDCA are opposites, as are #CDCAAC and #ACAFCD. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#CDACAF #CDCAAC #ACCDCA #ACAFCD

Tints

Mixing #CDACAF with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D7BDBF, keeps 80% of the original. By #F5EEEF, the mixture is 80% white.

#CDACAF #D7BDBF #E1CDCF #EBDEDF #F5EEEF #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #CDACAF with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A48A8C, keeps 80% of the original. By #292223, the mixture is 80% black.

#CDACAF #A48A8C #7B6769 #524546 #292223 #000000

Tones

Mixing #CDACAF with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BEA3A6, keeps 80% of the original. By #8F8989, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#CDACAF #BEA3A6 #AE9A9C #9F9293 #8F8989 #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

#CDACAF

RGB

rgb(205 172 175)

HSL

hsl(354.545 24.812% 73.922%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#CDACAF uses 205 red, 172 green and 175 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 80.4%

Green 67.5%

Blue 68.6%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #CDACAF is 0.0% cyan, 16.1% magenta, 14.6% yellow and 19.6% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 0.0%

Magenta 16.1%

Yellow 14.6%

Black 19.6%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #CCAAAA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #CAA in CSS. For a modern design, keep #CDACAF when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CC9999, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #CCAAAA Nearest web-safe: #CC9999

Gradient to complement

#CDACAF #C8B2B4 #C2B7B8 #BDBDBD #B7C2C1 #B2C8C6 #ACCDCA

Color vision previews

Compare how #CDACAF 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.

#B1B0AF

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.

#B8B6AE

Tritanopia

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

#D4AAAD

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.

#BCB0AF

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.

#BFB3AF

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#CDACAE

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#B4B4B4

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.

#C1B0B1

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 0.61050 G 0.41254 B 0.42869

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 0.78296 G 0.67933 B 0.68767

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.57535 G 0.41911 B 0.43063

CIE xyY

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

x 0.340 y 0.325 Y 45.580

CMY

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

C % 19.608 M % 32.549 Y % 31.373

Binary RGB

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

11001101 10101100 10101111