#255f86It is a dark pastel azure color having an approximate luminance of 38%. It has a hue value of 204° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Lapis Lazuli, Blue Sapphire, Sapphire Blue, Sapphire (Crayola), B'dazzled Blue, Queen Blue, Green-blue, Honolulu Blue, USAFA Blue and Spanish Blue. 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 #255f86 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (37, 95, 134)
#255f86
hsl (204.1, 56.7%, 33.5%)
hsv (204.1, 72.4%, 52.5%)
lab (38.4, -5.1, -27.2)
xyz (9.2, 10.3, 24.1)
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #255f86 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 azure color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Glaucous, Steel Blue, Shadow Blue, Light Slate Gray, Cadet Grey, Pewter Blue, Air Superiority Blue, Cerulean Frost, Light Steel Blue, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Beau Blue, Pale Aqua, Alice Blue, Gainsboro, Platinum and Ghost White.
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 azure color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Indigo Dye, Prussian Blue, Charcoal, Yale Blue, Gunmetal, Eigengrau, Rich Black (FOGRA29), Charleston Green, Rich Black (FOGRA39) and Eerie 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 azure color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to B'dazzled Blue, Lapis Lazuli, Blue Sapphire, Queen Blue, Black Coral, Payne's Grey, Dark Electric Blue, Cadet, Davy's Grey, Granite Gray and Dim Gray.
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 cyan, azure and blue colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Blue Sapphire, Maximum Blue, Dark Sky Blue, Indigo Dye, USAFA Blue, Aero, Iceberg, Purple Navy, Independence, Maximum Blue Purple and Blue Bell.
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 and warm colors. There are variants of azure and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Blue, Star Command Blue, Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Dark Brown, Light French Beige and Camel.
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 azure, green and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Blue, Star Command Blue, Hunter Green, UP Forest Green, Dark Sea Green, Eton Blue, Wine, Catawba, Pastel Pink and Mauvelous.
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 azure, rose, orange, cyan and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Blue, Star Command Blue, Old Mauve, Wine Dregs, Kobi, Charm Pink, Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Dark Brown, Light French Beige, Camel, Castleton Green, Blue-green (color Wheel), Green Sheen and Polished Pine.
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