Light Year Color

#bfbfb4

Light Year is pale, warm-toned shade of warm yellow. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with cool blue, red magenta or warm cyan

Inverse Color #40404b
Complementary Color #b4b4bf
Color Shade: warm yellow (60° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 72.75% (better contrasting with white)
Light Year Color Sample
Light Year Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #bfbfb4

If you're looking for a similar warm yellow shade, there are some better alternatives to Light Year Color. The Bay Water color for instance is a darker and a bit more vibrant option, however this color has a orange bias. Consider a darker and more soft alternative called Dark Souls (#a3a3a2) for more calm effect. Try Grayve-Yard as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#b4b4bf is the best complementary color to Light Year. Cool blue shades generally complement the warm yellow hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #bfbfb4 complementary color is French Gray, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of warm red, warm yellow, and yellow green colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Mist Gray are #bfb9b4 and #b9bfb4. Thus found on the left and right of #bfbfb4 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Cotton Seed and Green Spring colors as they work well with Light Year.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Light Year palette consists of #b9b4bf and #b4b9bf colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#b4b4bf). Try Chatelle and Bombay colors in combination with #bfbfb4, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #bfbfb4 offers a combination of cool magenta and warm cyan shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Light Year. Thus Pale Slate and Submarine giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Light Year contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary French Gray, Powder Ash, and Pink Swan split by 90° on the color wheel. #bfbfb4 square combo is a palette of warm yellow, cool green, cool blue and red magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Light Year tetradic combo consists of cool blue complementary color (#b4b4bf) and two others. The Submarine is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Pink Swan – 120° from the complementary French Gray. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #b4bfbf and #bfb4b4.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #bfbfb4 is made of 34% red, 34% green and 32% blue. In a HSL mode Light Year has a hue angle of 60°, a saturation of 7.91% and a lightness of 72.75%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #bfbfb4 is made of 0% cyan, 0% magenta, 4.31% yellow and 25.1% black ink.

HEX #bfbfb4
RGB Decimal rgb(191,191,180)
RGB Percentage 34%, 34%, 32%
CMYK 0, 0, 4.31, 25.1
HSL hsl(60,7.91%,72.75%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(60,5.76%,74.9%)
CIE-LAB lab(77.061,-1.974,5.5374)
XYZ xyz(48.3549,51.6333,50.5977)
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