Cadet blue

#46909a

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 #46909a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#46909a

RGB70, 144, 154

HSL187, 37%, 44%

HSV187, 55%, 60%

CMYK55%, 6%, 0%, 40%

Lab55.67, -20.02, -12.33

XYZ18.33, 23.58, 34.16

Decimal4624538

Web safe#339999

Pantone5483 C

Shades of cadet blue

#40848d #3a777f #346b72 #2e5e65 #285258 #22454a #1c393d #162d30 #102022 #0a1415

Tints of cadet blue

#4ea1ac #5facb6 #72b6bf #84bfc7 #97c9d0 #a9d2d8 #bbdce0 #cee5e9 #e0eff1 #f3f9f9

Colors that go with cadet blue

Complementary#9a5046 Analogous#469a7a Analogous#46669a Triadic#9a4690 Triadic#909a46 Split complementary#9a4666 Split complementary#9a7a46

Cadet blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 55, 6, 0, 40.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #46909a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

55 6 0 40

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

55 10 4 46

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 #46909a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #46909a; }
.text { color: #46909a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #46909a; }

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 #46909a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #46909a 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 #46909a 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 #46909a 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

Every value on this page for #46909a is computed, not guessed. 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.