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#becfd0

a light, soft cyan · cool · closest name: Light Gray

Token name suggestion: Morning Teal

RGB
190, 207, 208
HSL
183°, 16%, 78%
CMYK
9, 1, 0, 18
Luminance
0.6013

#becfd0 is a light soft cyan, 183° on the wheel and 68/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.03:1). As text it scores 1.61:1 on white — use #5A7A7C instead. Nearest name is Light Gray, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(183 16% 78%)rgb(190 207 208)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #becfd0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#becfd0
Hue
183°
cyan
Saturation
16%
soft
Lightness
78%
light
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
79%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6013
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
68/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
13.03:1
Closest name
Light Gray
ΔE2000 7.5
Chroma
6.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.842
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 19.8
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue183° of 360°
Saturation16%
Lightness78%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #becfd0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool68% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red18%
Green74%
Blue8%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#becfd0
HEX (8-digit)#becfd0ff
RGBrgb(190, 207, 208)
RGBArgba(190, 207, 208, 1)
HSLhsl(183, 16%, 78%)
HSV / HSBhsv(183, 9%, 82%)
HWBhwb(183 75% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(9%, 1%, 0%, 18%)
LABlab(81.9 -5.5 -2.5)
LCHlch(81.9 6.0 204.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.842 0.018 201.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(54.93, 60.13, 68.37)
Decimal12505040
Display P3color(display-p3 0.745 0.812 0.816)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #becfd0;
background-color: #becfd0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #becfd0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#becfd0] bg-[#becfd0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #becfd0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.745, green: 0.812, blue: 0.816)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.745, green: 0.812, blue: 0.816, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BECFD0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBECFD0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBECFD0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(208, 207, 190)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(190, 207, 208)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(190, 207, 208)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 190, 207, 208)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7451f, 0.8118f, 0.8157f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{190,207,208}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #becfd0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #becfd0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#35494A, #DBE5E5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #becfd0 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F6F8F8;
  --brand-100: #EEF1F2;
  --brand-200: #D9E2E3;
  --brand-300: #becfd0;
  --brand-400: #9DB7B8;
  --brand-500: #7D9FA1;
  --brand-600: #678C8E;
  --brand-700: #567576;
  --brand-800: #445D5F;
  --brand-900: #344546;
  --brand-950: #212B2C;
  --brand: #becfd0;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F8F9;
  --brand-border: #D0DCDD;
  --brand-hover: #A9C0C1;
  --brand-pressed: #94B0B2;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #182021;
    --brand-ink: #DBE5E5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F8F8',
        100: '#EEF1F2',
        200: '#D9E2E3',
        300: '#becfd0',
        400: '#9DB7B8',
        500: '#7D9FA1',
        600: '#678C8E',
        700: '#567576',
        800: '#445D5F',
        900: '#344546',
        950: '#212B2C',
        DEFAULT: '#becfd0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F8F8,
  '100': #EEF1F2,
  '200': #D9E2E3,
  '300': #becfd0,
  '400': #9DB7B8,
  '500': #7D9FA1,
  '600': #678C8E,
  '700': #567576,
  '800': #445D5F,
  '900': #344546,
  '950': #212B2C,
);
$brand-base: #becfd0;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F8F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEF1F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D9E2E3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#becfd0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#9DB7B8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7D9FA1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#678C8E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#567576", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#445D5F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#344546", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#212B2C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #becfd0 · 13.03:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.61:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.03:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #becfd0 as text scores 1.61:1 on white and 13.03:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #35494A at 5.91:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#5A7A7C · 4.66:1
AA on white−36% L
#5A7A7C
The quick fox
#445D5F · 7.05:1
AAA on white−46% L
#445D5F
The quick fox
#becfd0 · 13.03:1
AA on blackalready passes
#becfd0
The quick fox
#becfd0 · 13.03:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#becfd0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #779B9D is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#becfd0 on white: 1.61:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#becfd0 on black: 13.03:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #becfd0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #becfd0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.61:1AaAa
Slate 501.54:1AaAa
Slate 1001.47:1AaAa
Slate 2001.31:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.59:1AaAa
Slate 5002.95:1AaAa
Slate 6004.70:1AaAa
Slate 7006.42:1AaAa
Slate 8009.07:1AaAa
Slate 90011.07:1AaAa
Black13.03:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CCCDD0
deuteranopia · #C9CAD0
tritanopia · #B9D0CF

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #becfd0 is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F6F8F8
#EEF1F2
#D9E2E3
#becfd0
#9DB7B8
#7D9FA1
#678C8E
#567576
#445D5F
#344546
#212B2C
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F6F8F8Darkest = 950 · #212B2CText step on white = 700
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.005 201.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 201.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.011 201.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.014 201.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.017 201.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.018 201.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.018 201.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.017 201.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.016 201.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.013 201.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.010 201.1);
}

Colors that work with #becfd0

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F6F8F9
Tinted page background
Border#D0DCDD
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#608385
Captions on the surface
Accent#7A5259
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#35494A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0F4F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#182021
Dark-mode background
Hover#A9C0C1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#94B0B2
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F6F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C5DCDD
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #becfd0

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • White text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #35494A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #779B9D

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight22/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#D0BFBE
Analogous left#BED0C8
Analogous right#BEC6D0
Split-complement 1#D0BEC6
Split-complement 2#D0C8BE
Triadic 1#D0BECF
Triadic 2#CFD0BE
Tetradic#C8BED0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°183°

#becfd0 sits at 183°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.5%
Green81.2%
Blue81.6%
R · 0–255
190
0xbe
G · 0–255
207
0xcf
B · 0–255
208
0xd0

CMYK percentages

Cyan8.7%
Magenta0.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)18.4%

Total ink coverage is 28%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#becfd0 text on a black background

contrast 13.03:1

Card sample

#becfd0 text on a white background

contrast 1.61:1

Card sample

#becfd0 on grey

1.47:1

#becfd0 on its own surface

1.51:1

#becfd0 on its dark surface

10.28:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #becfd0;
Background color
Panel with #becfd0 background
background-color: #becfd0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #becfd0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(190, 207, 208, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(190, 207, 208, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #becfd0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #becfd0, #BEC3D0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #becfd0, #BEBED0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #becfd0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #becfd0;
caret-color: #becfd0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #becfd0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0F4F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #becfd0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#becfd0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #becfd0 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(190, 207, 208, 0.5)
rgb(190 207 208 / 50%)
#becfd080
hsl(183 16% 78% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #becfd0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#becfd01a#F9FAFA
20%#becfd033#F2F5F6
40%#becfd066#E5ECEC
60%#becfd099#D8E2E3
80%#becfd0cc#CBD9D9

Gradients from #becfd0

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #E1E9EA, #becfd0 45%, #35494A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #becfd0, #ACB1C3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #becfd0, #D0BFBE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3F6F6 0%, #becfd0 45%, #35494A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F8F9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DBE5E0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D0D4DD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #35494A 0%, transparent 65%), #becfd0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #becfd0

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#becfd0 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 13.03:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#becfd0, answered

What color is #becfd0?

#becfd0 is a light soft cyan, closest to Light Gray (ΔE2000 7.5). It sits at 183° on the hue wheel with 16% saturation and 78% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #becfd0?

rgb(190, 207, 208) — 190 red, 207 green and 208 blue out of 255, or 74.5% / 81.2% / 81.6% by channel.

What is #becfd0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(183, 16%, 78%) and hsv(183, 9%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #becfd0 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6013 and perceived brightness is 79%, so black text on it reaches 13.03:1.

Should I use black or white text on #becfd0?

Black. It scores 13.03:1 against #becfd0, versus 1.61:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #becfd0 accessible on a white background?

#becfd0 on white scores 1.61:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5A7A7C to reach 4.5:1, or #445D5F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #becfd0?

#D0BFBE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D0BEC6 and #D0C8BE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #becfd0?

For interface work: #F6F8F9 as the surface, #D0DCDD for borders, #608385 for secondary text, #7A5259 as an accent and #35494A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BED0C8 and #BEC6D0 stays calm, while #D0BFBE is the loudest partner.

What is #becfd0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(9%, 1%, 0%, 18%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #becfd0 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 68 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BED0CA; nudged cooler, #BDC8D1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #becfd0?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 19.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #becfd0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #becfd0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#becfd0] or text-[#becfd0], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #becfd0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(190, 207, 208, 0.5), or #becfd080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DFE7E8; over black, #5F6868.

Is #becfd0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 7.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #becfd0 mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #becfd0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E1E9EA, #becfd0 45%, #35494A). For more colour, a short hue run to #ACB1C3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #becfd0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #becfd0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.