Powder blue

#bbcdc8

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, open 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 #bbcdc8, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bbcdc8

RGB187, 205, 200

HSL163, 15%, 77%

HSV163, 9%, 80%

CMYK9%, 0%, 2%, 20%

Lab80.96, -7.03, 0.4

XYZ52.75, 58.4, 63.14

Decimal12307912

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone552 C

Shades of powder blue

#a6beb7 #91aea6 #7d9f95 #698f84 #5a7a71 #4a655e #3b504a #2c3b37 #1c2624 #0d1210

Tints of powder blue

#c1d1cd #c7d5d1 #ccdad6 #d2dedb #d8e2df #dee6e4 #e3ebe9 #e9efed #eff3f2 #f5f7f7

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#cdbbc0 Analogous#bbcdbf Analogous#bbc9cd Triadic#c8bbcd Triadic#cdc8bb Split complementary#cdbbc9 Split complementary#cdbfbb

Powder blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 9, 0, 2, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bbcdc8 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

9 0 2 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

12 4 6 26

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 #bbcdc8 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bbcdc8; }
.text { color: #bbcdc8; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bbcdc8; }

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 #bbcdc8 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bbcdc8 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 #bbcdc8 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 #bbcdc8 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 #bbcdc8 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.