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Description and conversion results of color #6a969c

It is a grayish cyan color having an approximate luminance of 59%. It has a hue value of 187° indicating that this is a cold color.

 

Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cadet Blue, Steel Teal, Pewter Blue, Blue (Munsell), Wintergreen Dream, Morning Blue, Viridian Green, Blue-green, Maximum Blue and Pacific Blue. A bit below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.

Conversion results

The following list contains the conversion results of color #6a969c to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.

rgb (106, 150, 156) #6a969c hsl (187.2, 20.2%, 51.4%) hsv (187.2, 32.1%, 61.2%) lab (59.2, -13.4, -8) xyz (22.8, 27.3, 35.5)

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Similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors

In real life paints might have a different shade compared to as they appear on your display. You shall always consult and double-check colors with a professional paint provider before you order.

The following table contains the nearest matching standard colors.

The left side contains the reference color, while the right side shows the matched color. For each item there is a link to our partner MyPerfectColor.com, where you can buy corresponding paints.

   Pantone 2211 CBUY PAINT >>
   Pantone 16-4712 TPGBUY PAINT >>
   Pantone 4186 CBUY PAINT >>
   RAL 660-MBUY PAINT >>
   RAL 720-5BUY PAINT >>
   RAL D2 200 50 15BUY PAINT >>
   Sherwin-Williams 7612BUY PAINT >>
   Sherwin-Williams 6494BUY PAINT >>
   Sherwin-Williams 6487BUY PAINT >>

Tints, shades and tones

Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #6a969c 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 cyan color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.


This color scale contains similar colors to Pewter Blue, Opal, Morning Blue, Cadet Grey, Ash Gray, Light Blue, Crystal, Light Gray, Gainsboro, Beau Blue, Pale Aqua, Cultured, Alice Blue and Platinum.


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 cyan color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.


This color scale contains similar colors to Deep Space Sparkle, Cadet, Ming, Teal Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Charcoal, Outer Space (Crayola), Charleston Green, Gunmetal, Onyx, Eerie Black, Dark Jungle Green and Rich Black (FOGRA29).


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 cyan color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.


This color scale contains similar colors to Steel Teal, Cadet Blue, Morning Blue, Pewter Blue, Cadet Grey, Light Slate Gray, Spanish Gray, Old Silver, Battleship Grey and Gray (Web).

Color schemes and palettes

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 MSU Green, Dark Slate Gray, Green Sheen, Morning Blue, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue, Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Dark Sky Blue.


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 cyan and red colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Teal, Ming, Rose Ebony, Dark Liver (horses), Tuscany and Pastel Pink.


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 cyan, orange and magenta colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Teal, Ming, Olive Drab 7, Dark Lava, Khaki (Web), Grullo, Eggplant, English Violet, Lilac Luster and Rose Quartz.


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 cyan, blue, red and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Teal, Ming, Independence, English Violet, Blue Bell, Heliotrope Gray, Rose Ebony, Dark Liver (horses), Tuscany, Pastel Pink, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green and Artichoke.

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