Powder blue

#91cdd1

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 184 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 #91cdd1, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#91cdd1

RGB145, 205, 209

HSL184, 41%, 69%

HSV184, 31%, 82%

CMYK31%, 2%, 0%, 18%

Lab78.63, -18.13, -8.16

XYZ45.02, 54.29, 68.43

Decimal9555409

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone630 C

Shades of powder blue

#7ac3c7 #63b8be #4daeb4 #42999e #398388 #2f6d71 #26575a #1c4143 #132b2c #091516

Tints of powder blue

#9bd1d5 #a4d6d9 #aedadd #b8dfe1 #c2e3e5 #cbe8e9 #d5ecee #dff0f2 #e9f5f6 #f2f9fa

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#d19591 Analogous#91d1b5 Analogous#91add1 Triadic#d191cd Triadic#cdd191 Split complementary#d191ad Split complementary#d1b591

Powder blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 31, 2, 0, 18.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #91cdd1 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

31 2 0 18

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

33 6 4 24

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 #91cdd1 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #91cdd1; }
.text { color: #91cdd1; }
.border { border: 2px solid #91cdd1; }

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 #91cdd1 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #91cdd1 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 #91cdd1 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 #91cdd1 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.

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How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #91cdd1 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.