Powder blue

#89d3d9

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

This is Powder blue, a soft teal at 185 degrees. A mid teal this balanced works for spa, travel and wellness. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #89d3d9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#89d3d9

RGB137, 211, 217

HSL185, 51%, 69%

HSV185, 37%, 85%

CMYK37%, 3%, 0%, 15%

Lab80.13, -21.42, -10.25

XYZ46.14, 56.92, 74.2

Decimal9032665

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone3105 C

Shades of powder blue

#71cad1 #58c1c9 #40b8c1 #37a1aa #2f8a91 #277379 #1f5c61 #174448 #0f2d30 #071617

Tints of powder blue

#9edbe0 #a8dfe3 #b3e3e6 #bde6ea #c8eaed #d2eef1 #ddf2f4 #e7f6f7 #f1fafb

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#d98f89 Analogous#89d9b7 Analogous#89abd9 Triadic#d989d3 Triadic#d3d989 Split complementary#d989ab Split complementary#d9b789

Powder blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 37, 3, 0, 15.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #89d3d9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

37 3 0 15

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

38 7 4 21

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.

Powder blue in css

Copy #89d3d9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #89d3d9; }
.text { color: #89d3d9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #89d3d9; }

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 #89d3d9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #89d3d9 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Powder blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #89d3d9 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn powder blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #89d3d9 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

Here is how the numbers for #89d3d9 are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.