Cadet blue

#2e99a6

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

Cadet blue is a deep teal, serious between blue and green. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Cadet blue color values

Every conversion for #2e99a6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#2e99a6

RGB46, 153, 166

HSL187, 57%, 42%

HSV187, 72%, 65%

CMYK72%, 8%, 0%, 35%

Lab58.15, -25.21, -15.51

XYZ19.4, 26.12, 40.09

Decimal3053990

Web safe#339999

Pantone3135 C

Shades of cadet blue

#2a8c98 #267f8a #22727b #1e656d #1a585f #164a51 #123d43 #0f3034 #0b2326 #071618

Tints of cadet blue

#34adbc #42bcca #57c3d1 #6dcbd7 #83d3dd #99dbe3 #afe3e9 #c5eaef #dbf2f5 #f1fafb

Colors that go with cadet blue

Complementary#a63b2e Analogous#2ea677 Analogous#2e5da6 Triadic#a62e99 Triadic#99a62e Split complementary#a62e5d Split complementary#a6772e

Cadet 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 72, 8, 0, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #2e99a6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

72 8 0 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

70 11 4 41

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Cadet blue in css

Copy #2e99a6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #2e99a6; }
.text { color: #2e99a6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #2e99a6; }

How cadet blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Cadet blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #2e99a6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #2e99a6 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Cadet blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #2e99a6 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around cadet blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn cadet blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #2e99a6 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 cadet blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #2e99a6 are worked out. 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.