Powder blue

#a8dcdc

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for powder blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Powder blue is a light teal, soft between blue and green. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #a8dcdc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a8dcdc

RGB168, 220, 220

HSL180, 43%, 76%

HSV180, 24%, 86%

CMYK24%, 0%, 0%, 14%

Lab84.32, -16.61, -5.47

XYZ54.66, 64.68, 77.31

Decimal11066588

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone304 C

Shades of powder blue

#8fd2d2 #75c7c7 #5cbdbd #46afaf #3c9595 #327c7c #286262 #1d4949 #132f2f #091616

Tints of powder blue

#afdfdf #b7e2e2 #bee5e5 #c6e8e8 #cdebeb #d5eeee #dcf1f1 #e3f4f4 #ebf7f7 #f2fafa

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#dca8a8 Analogous#a8dcc2 Analogous#a8c2dc Triadic#dca8dc Triadic#dcdca8 Split complementary#dca8c2 Split complementary#dcc2a8

Powder blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 24, 0, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a8dcdc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

24 0 0 14

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

26 4 4 20

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Powder blue in css

Copy #a8dcdc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a8dcdc; }
.text { color: #a8dcdc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a8dcdc; }

How powder blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Powder blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a8dcdc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a8dcdc against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Powder blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a8dcdc sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around powder blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn powder blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a8dcdc and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from powder blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #a8dcdc is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.