Information about #BBECFF color

#BBECFF color image

Basic facts about this digital color

The digital color #BBECFF is classified in the Register under the Azure Color Family, with Full Saturation and Luminous brightness. Its exact recipe is rgb(187, 236, 255) — 73.3% red, 92.5% green, 100% blue — and for print it converts to CMYK 27 / 7 / 0 / 0. Curious how these numbers work? Read our RGB color codes guide.

A maximally vivid steel-blue azure, #BBECFF glows at the very top of the lightness scale. Expect to see shades like this in clean interfaces where content needs room to breathe. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Diamond (#B9F2FF). Nearby in the Register you will also find Soft Sky Blue (#C1F1FF) and Pale Sky Blue (#BDF6FE).

The recipe behind #BBECFF is rgb(187, 236, 255), with blue as the dominant ingredient. If you plan to put text on a #BBECFF background, choose black — the contrast ratio is 16.6:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while white manages only 1.3:1. #BBECFF has no official name yet. If this shade means something to you, you can be the one to name it.

#BBECFF color variations

View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.

#BBECFF color harmonies

Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.

Complementary

Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.

Complementary color schemes

Split complementary

Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.

Split complementary color scheme

Analogous

Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.

Analogous color scheme

Triadic

Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.

Triadic color scheme

Tetradic

Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.

Tetradic color scheme

Square

Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.

Square color scheme

Nearest named colors to #BBECFF

The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.

Conversions between color systems and etc.

  • HEX#BBECFF
  • RGB187, 236, 255
  • CMYK27, 7, 0, 0
  • CSSrgb(187, 236, 255)
  • HSL197°, 100%, 87%
  • HSL Precise196.765°, 100%, 86.667%
  • HSV197°, 27%, 100%
  • HSB197°, 27%, 100%
  • Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.733
  • Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.925
  • Normalized B (0.0–1.0)1.000
  • GLSLvec3(0.733, 0.925, 1.000)
  • GLSL with alphavec4(0.733, 0.925, 1.000, 1.000)
  • HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.733, 0.925, 1.000)
  • Percentage of Red in RGB73.3%
  • Percentage of Green in RGB92.5%
  • Percentage of Blue in RGB100%
  • Color FamilyAzure
  • Saturation FamilyFull Saturation
  • Lightness FamilyLuminous
  • HEX IDBBECFF
  • DECIMAL ID12315903
  • Name LengthThis color has no name
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