Cadet blue

#3c8ea6

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

Cadet blue lands where green meets blue, deep and soft. 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 #3c8ea6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#3c8ea6

RGB60, 142, 166

HSL194, 47%, 44%

HSV194, 64%, 65%

CMYK64%, 14%, 0%, 35%

Lab55.13, -17.27, -20.06

XYZ18.42, 23.06, 39.56

Decimal3968678

Web safe#339999

Pantone640 C

Shades of cadet blue

#378298 #327589 #2c697b #275d6d #22515e #1d4450 #183842 #122c33 #0d2025 #081316

Tints of cadet blue

#439fba #55a9c2 #69b3c9 #7dbdd0 #90c7d7 #a4d1de #b7dbe5 #cbe5ec #deeef3 #f2f8fa

Colors that go with cadet blue

Complementary#a6543c Analogous#3ca689 Analogous#3c59a6 Triadic#a63c8e Triadic#8ea63c Split complementary#a63c59 Split complementary#a6893c

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 64, 14, 0, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #3c8ea6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

64 14 0 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

63 17 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Cadet blue in css

Copy #3c8ea6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #3c8ea6; }
.text { color: #3c8ea6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #3c8ea6; }

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 #3c8ea6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #3c8ea6 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Cadet blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #3c8ea6 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn cadet blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #3c8ea6 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 #3c8ea6 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.