#656aa8It is a grayish blue color having an approximate luminance of 47%. It has a hue value of 236° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Dark Blue-gray, Blue-violet (Crayola), Liberty, Violet-blue (Crayola), Blue Yonder, Han Blue, Rhythm, Middle Blue Purple, Queen Blue and Purple Navy. 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 #656aa8 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (101, 106, 168)
#656aa8
hsl (235.5, 27.8%, 52.7%)
hsv (235.5, 39.9%, 65.9%)
lab (46.8, 14, -33.9)
xyz (17.6, 15.9, 39.2)
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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 #656aa8 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 grayish 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 Cool Grey, Blue Bell, Purple Mountain Majesty, Shadow Blue, Wild Blue Yonder, Maximum Blue Purple, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Light Periwinkle, Lavender Gray, Periwinkle (Crayola), Languid Lavender, Ghost White, Lavender (Web), Alice Blue 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 grayish 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 Purple Navy, Independence, Cyber Grape, Dark Slate Blue, Space Cadet, Eigengrau, Raisin Black, Oxford Blue, Rich Black (FOGRA29) 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 grayish 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 Blue-gray, Rhythm, Blue-violet (Crayola), Liberty, Old Lavender, Purple Navy, Black Coral, Dim Gray, Sonic Silver, Granite Gray and Nickel.
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, USAFA Blue, Blue Jeans, French Sky Blue, Dark Cornflower Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Maximum Blue Purple, Blue Bell, Palatinate Purple, Japanese Violet, Wisteria and Plum (Web).
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 yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Violet-blue (Crayola), Blue-violet (Crayola), Army Green, Dark Moss Green, Olive Green and Misty Moss.
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 Violet-blue (Crayola), Blue-violet (Crayola), Blue-green (color Wheel), Brunswick Green, Keppel, Mountain Meadow, Fuzzy Wuzzy, Seal Brown, Dark Salmon 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, yellow and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Violet-blue (Crayola), Blue-violet (Crayola), Wine, Antique Ruby, Light Coral, New York Pink, Army Green, Dark Moss Green, Olive Green, Misty Moss, Deep Jungle Green, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Maximum Blue Green and Verdigris.
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