Powder blue

#a3cdca

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 176 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 #a3cdca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a3cdca

RGB163, 205, 202

HSL176, 30%, 72%

HSV176, 20%, 80%

CMYK20%, 0%, 1%, 20%

Lab79.45, -14.37, -3.07

XYZ47.6, 55.71, 64.12

Decimal10735050

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone629 C

Shades of powder blue

#8dc1bd #77b5b1 #61a9a4 #529792 #46817d #3a6b68 #2e5553 #23403d #172a28 #0b1413

Tints of powder blue

#abd1cf #b3d6d3 #bbdad8 #c3dedd #cbe3e1 #d3e7e6 #dbecea #e3f0ef #ebf4f4 #f3f9f8

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#cda3a6 Analogous#a3cdb5 Analogous#a3bbcd Triadic#caa3cd Triadic#cdcaa3 Split complementary#cda3bb Split complementary#cdb5a3

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 20, 0, 1, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a3cdca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 0 1 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 4 5 26

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 #a3cdca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a3cdca; }
.text { color: #a3cdca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a3cdca; }

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 #a3cdca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a3cdca 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 #a3cdca 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 #a3cdca 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

Every value on this page for #a3cdca 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.