Powder blue

#b2dcdc

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

Powder blue lands where green meets blue, light and soft. 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 #b2dcdc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b2dcdc

RGB178, 220, 220

HSL180, 38%, 78%

HSV180, 19%, 86%

CMYK19%, 0%, 0%, 14%

Lab84.9, -13.6, -4.53

XYZ56.87, 65.82, 77.42

Decimal11721948

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone629 C

Shades of powder blue

#99d1d1 #7fc5c5 #66baba #4eadad #439393 #377a7a #2c6161 #214848 #152e2e #0a1515

Tints of powder blue

#b8dfdf #bfe2e2 #c5e5e5 #cce8e8 #d2ebeb #d9eeee #dff1f1 #e6f4f4 #ecf6f6 #f3f9f9

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#dcb2b2 Analogous#b2dcc7 Analogous#b2c7dc Triadic#dcb2dc Triadic#dcdcb2 Split complementary#dcb2c7 Split complementary#dcc7b2

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 19, 0, 0, 14.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b2dcdc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

19 0 0 14

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 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 #b2dcdc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b2dcdc; }
.text { color: #b2dcdc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b2dcdc; }

How powder blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Powder blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #b2dcdc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b2dcdc 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 #b2dcdc 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 #b2dcdc 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

Here is how the numbers for #b2dcdc are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.