#171540It is a dark pastel blue color having an approximate luminance of 10%. It has a hue value of 243° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Russian Violet, Space Cadet, Oxford Blue, Royal Blue (dark), Dark Purple, St. Patrick's Blue, Yale Blue, Prussian Blue, Eigengrau and English Violet. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color #171540 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (23, 21, 64)
#171540
hsl (242.8, 50.6%, 16.7%)
hsv (242.8, 67.2%, 25.1%)
lab (9.7, 15.9, -27.2)
xyz (1.5, 1.1, 5)
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The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #171540 respectively. The process results a harmonic color scale.
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Tints
These are the color variants which are generated by adding white color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark pastel blue color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Purple Navy, Independence, Cyber Grape, English Violet, Rhythm, Old Lavender, Dark Blue-gray, Chinese Violet, Manatee, Rose Quartz, Heliotrope Gray, Silver (Metallic), Gainsboro, Light Gray, Lavender Gray and Lavender (Web).
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark pastel blue color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Dark Purple, Russian Violet, Space Cadet, Oxford Blue, Eigengrau, Raisin Black, Rich Black (FOGRA29), Rich Black (FOGRA39) and Black.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a dark pastel blue color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Dark Purple, Space Cadet, Russian Violet, Oxford Blue, Eigengrau, Raisin Black, Eerie Black and Rich Black (FOGRA29).
Color schemes represent a set of colors creating a harmonic and aesthetic feeling. Color schemes are generated by choosing colors around the color wheel.
We can talk about monochromatic, complementary, triadic and tetradic color schemes, choosing one, two, three or four colors around the color wheel respectively.
In the following tables these color schemes are present.
Monochromatic
The monochromatic scale is generated by choosing colors on the color wheel near to the base color. As the colors of the monochromatic scale are close to each other, they create a harmonic feeling.
This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of azure, blue and magenta colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Indigo Dye, Independence, Wild Blue Yonder, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Cyber Grape, Purple Navy, Blue Bell, Maximum Blue Purple, Japanese Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac and Orchid (Crayola).
Complementary
The complementary scale is generated by choosing the color on the opposite side on the color wheel relative to the base color. This results in slight vibrating tension between the complementary colors.
This color scale contains cold colors. There are variants of blue and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Blue-gray, Middle Blue Purple, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green and Artichoke.
Triadic
The triadic scale is generated by choosing two colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combines the slight vibrating tension and the harmonic feeling between the triadic colors.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of blue, cyan, green and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Blue-gray, Middle Blue Purple, Dark Slate Gray, MSU Green, Morning Blue, Opal, Dark Liver (horses), Café Noir, Tumbleweed and Antique Brass.
Tetradic
The tetradic scale is generated by choosing three colors on the color wheel relative to the base color. This combination covers the whole color wheel containing both the complementary and harmonic colors of the base color.
This color scale contains cold and warm colors. There are variants of blue, red, green and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Blue-gray, Middle Blue Purple, Wine, Bole, Pastel Pink, New York Pink, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green, Artichoke, Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue and Opal.
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