#79a5e5It is a bright pastel azure color having an approximate luminance of 67%. It has a hue value of 216° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Little Boy Blue, Iceberg, Cornflower Blue, Blue-gray, Livid, French Sky Blue, Cerulean Frost, United Nations Blue, Blue Jeans and Air Superiority 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 #79a5e5 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (121, 165, 229)
#79a5e5
hsl (215.6, 67.5%, 68.6%)
hsv (215.6, 47.2%, 89.8%)
lab (67, 2.3, -36.9)
xyz (35.5, 36.6, 79.3)
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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 #79a5e5 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 bright 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 Baby Blue Eyes, Light Steel Blue, Wild Blue Yonder, Pale Cerulean, Periwinkle (Crayola), Light Periwinkle, Lavender (Web), Beau Blue, Ghost White, Alice Blue and Cultured.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base color. This process results a scale from a bright 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 Yonder, Glaucous, Queen Blue, Steel Blue, Independence, YInMn Blue, B'dazzled Blue, Purple Navy, Charcoal, Gunmetal, Prussian Blue, Onyx, Eigengrau, Rich Black (FOGRA29), Eerie Black and Raisin 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 bright 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 Little Boy Blue, Iceberg, Cerulean Frost, Blue-gray, Wild Blue Yonder, Blue Bell, Cool Grey, Maximum Blue Purple, Manatee, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Silver (Metallic), Quick Silver and Cadet Grey.
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 violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Blue Sapphire, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Cyan (Process), Capri, Indigo Dye, USAFA Blue, French Sky Blue, Little Boy Blue, Cyber Grape, Dark Slate Blue, 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 yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Blue Yonder, Bright Navy Blue, Field Drab, Antique Bronze, Vegas Gold and Ecru.
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 Blue Yonder, Bright Navy Blue, UP Forest Green, Forest Green (Traditional), Ocean Green, Dark Sea Green, Liver (organ), Persian Plum, Coral Pink and Congo 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, rose, yellow and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Blue Yonder, Bright Navy Blue, Catawba, Claret, Vanilla Ice, Charm Pink, Field Drab, Antique Bronze, Vegas Gold, Ecru, Blue-green (color Wheel), Deep Jungle Green, Keppel and Light Sea Green.
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