Powder blue

#9fd3cd

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

Powder blue lands where green meets blue, light and soft. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Pair it with warm oranges for a complementary lift, or with deep navy for depth.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #9fd3cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#9fd3cd

RGB159, 211, 205

HSL173, 37%, 73%

HSV173, 25%, 83%

CMYK25%, 0%, 3%, 17%

Lab80.94, -18.0, -2.51

XYZ48.61, 58.37, 66.46

Decimal10474445

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone324 C

Shades of powder blue

#88c8c1 #70beb5 #59b3a9 #4aa197 #3f8981 #34726b #2a5b55 #1f443f #142c29 #0a1514

Tints of powder blue

#b0dbd6 #c1e2de #c9e6e3 #d1eae7 #daeeec #e2f2f0 #eaf6f4 #f3f9f9

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#d39fa5 Analogous#9fd3b3 Analogous#9fbfd3 Triadic#cd9fd3 Triadic#d3cd9f Split complementary#d39fbf Split complementary#d3b39f

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 25, 0, 3, 17.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #9fd3cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 0 3 17

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 4 7 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Powder blue in css

Copy #9fd3cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #9fd3cd; }
.text { color: #9fd3cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #9fd3cd; }

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 #9fd3cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #9fd3cd 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 #9fd3cd 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 #9fd3cd 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

Every value on this page for #9fd3cd is computed, not guessed. 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.