Powder blue

#98d3d3

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 180 degrees. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #98d3d3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#98d3d3

RGB152, 211, 211

HSL180, 40%, 71%

HSV180, 28%, 83%

CMYK28%, 0%, 0%, 17%

Lab80.72, -18.72, -6.09

XYZ48.0, 57.97, 70.29

Decimal10015699

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone636 C

Shades of powder blue

#81c9c9 #69bfbf #52b5b5 #45a1a1 #3b8a8a #317373 #275b5b #1d4444 #132d2d #091515

Tints of powder blue

#a1d7d7 #aadbdb #b3dfdf #bce2e2 #c5e6e6 #ceeaea #d7eeee #e0f2f2 #e9f6f6 #f2fafa

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#d39898 Analogous#98d3b5 Analogous#98b5d3 Triadic#d398d3 Triadic#d3d398 Split complementary#d398b5 Split complementary#d3b598

Powder 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 28, 0, 0, 17.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #98d3d3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

28 0 0 17

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

30 4 4 23

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.

Powder blue in css

Copy #98d3d3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #98d3d3; }
.text { color: #98d3d3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #98d3d3; }

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 #98d3d3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #98d3d3 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Powder blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #98d3d3 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn powder blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #98d3d3 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 #98d3d3 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.