Cadet blue

#309e9c

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. Pair it with warm oranges for a complementary lift, or with deep navy for depth.

Cadet blue color values

Every conversion for #309e9c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#309e9c

RGB48, 158, 156

HSL179, 53%, 40%

HSV179, 70%, 62%

CMYK70%, 0%, 1%, 38%

Lab59.42, -30.45, -7.92

XYZ19.45, 27.48, 35.73

Decimal3186332

Web safe#339999

Pantone320 C

Shades of cadet blue

#2c918f #288381 #247674 #206867 #1c5b5a #174d4c #13403f #0f3232 #0b2524 #071717

Tints of cadet blue

#37b4b2 #42c6c3 #58ccca #6ed3d1 #84dad8 #9ae0df #afe7e6 #c5eeed #dbf4f4 #f1fbfb

Colors that go with cadet blue

Complementary#9e3032 Analogous#309e65 Analogous#30699e Triadic#9c309e Triadic#9e9c30 Split complementary#9e3069 Split complementary#9e6530

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 70, 0, 1, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #309e9c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

70 0 1 38

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

68 4 5 44

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 #309e9c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #309e9c; }
.text { color: #309e9c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #309e9c; }

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 #309e9c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #309e9c 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 #309e9c 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 #309e9c 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

The figures for #309e9c 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.