#487d97It is a pastel azure color having an approximate luminance of 50%. It has a hue value of 200° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Teal Blue, CG Blue, Celadon Blue, Cerulean, Steel Blue, Blue (NCS), Star Command Blue, Slate Gray, Green-blue (Crayola) and Ming. 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 #487d97 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (72, 125, 151)
#487d97
hsl (199.7, 35.4%, 43.7%)
hsv (199.7, 52.3%, 59.2%)
lab (49.8, -10.1, -19.4)
xyz (15.6, 18.3, 32)
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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 #487d97 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 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 Air Superiority Blue, Pewter Blue, Cerulean Frost, Cadet Grey, Dark Sky Blue, Pale Cerulean, Beau Blue, Pale Aqua, Columbia Blue, Silver Sand, Alice Blue, Cultured, Platinum and Gainsboro.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a 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 Blue Sapphire, Deep Space Sparkle, Dark Electric Blue, Payne's Grey, Charcoal, Gunmetal, Outer Space (Crayola), Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Charleston Green, Onyx, Rich Black (FOGRA29), Eerie Black, Rich Black (FOGRA39) and Eigengrau.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base color. This process results a scale from a 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 Teal Blue, Slate Gray, Payne's Grey, Dark Electric Blue, Cadet, Sonic Silver, Nickel, Gray (Web) 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 and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Deep Jungle Green, Cadet Blue, Dark Sky Blue, Blue Sapphire, Pewter Blue, Indigo Dye, Dark Cornflower Blue, Wild Blue Yonder and Maximum Blue Purple.
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 Teal Blue, CG Blue, Dark Brown, Kobicha, Tumbleweed and Antique Brass.
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 rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Teal Blue, CG Blue, Rifle Green, Army Green, Laurel Green, Sage, Catawba, Old Mauve, Puce and Pastel Pink.
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, magenta, orange and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Teal Blue, CG Blue, Dark Byzantium, English Violet, Lilac, Pink Lavender, Dark Brown, Kobicha, Tumbleweed, Antique Brass, English Green, Brunswick Green, Dark Sea Green and Eton Blue.
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