Powder blue

#c8eaee

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. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #c8eaee, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8eaee

RGB200, 234, 238

HSL186, 53%, 86%

HSV186, 16%, 93%

CMYK16%, 2%, 0%, 7%

Lab90.46, -10.21, -5.66

XYZ68.67, 77.3, 92.19

Decimal13167342

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone2975 C

Shades of powder blue

#a9dee4 #8ad2db #6bc6d1 #4cbac8 #37a6b3 #2e8994 #246c75 #1a4f56 #113336 #071617

Tints of powder blue

#ccecef #d0edf1 #d4eff2 #d9f0f3 #ddf2f4 #e1f3f6 #e5f5f7 #e9f7f8 #edf8fa #f1fafb

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#eeccc8 Analogous#c8eedf Analogous#c8d7ee Triadic#eec8ea Triadic#eaeec8 Split complementary#eec8d7 Split complementary#eedfc8

Powder blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 16, 2, 0, 7.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8eaee on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 2 0 7

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 6 4 13

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 #c8eaee straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8eaee; }
.text { color: #c8eaee; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8eaee; }

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 #c8eaee against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8eaee 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 #c8eaee 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 #c8eaee 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 #c8eaee 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.