Powder blue

#b9e2ea

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

This is Powder blue, a soft teal at 190 degrees. 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 #b9e2ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b9e2ea

RGB185, 226, 234

HSL190, 54%, 82%

HSV190, 21%, 92%

CMYK21%, 3%, 0%, 8%

Lab87.31, -11.56, -8.32

XYZ62.06, 70.65, 88.21

Decimal12182250

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone2975 C

Shades of powder blue

#9bd6e1 #7dc9d8 #5fbdcf #41b0c6 #3499ad #2b7f8f #226471 #194a53 #102f35 #071518

Tints of powder blue

#bfe4ec #c4e7ed #cae9ef #d0ebf1 #d5eef2 #dbf0f4 #e0f2f6 #e6f5f8 #ecf7f9 #f1f9fb

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#eac1b9 Analogous#b9eada Analogous#b9c9ea Triadic#eab9e2 Triadic#e2eab9 Split complementary#eab9c9 Split complementary#eadab9

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 21, 3, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b9e2ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

21 3 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

23 7 4 14

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 #b9e2ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b9e2ea; }
.text { color: #b9e2ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b9e2ea; }

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 #b9e2ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b9e2ea 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 #b9e2ea 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 #b9e2ea 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

The figures for #b9e2ea come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.