#79b3ccIt is a bright pastel azure color having an approximate luminance of 70%. It has a hue value of 198° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Dark Sky Blue, Maximum Blue, Pewter Blue, Aero, Air Superiority Blue, Light Cornflower Blue, Sky Blue, Pale Cerulean, Cerulean (Crayola) and Iceberg. 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 #79b3cc to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (121, 179, 204)
#79b3cc
hsl (198.1, 44.9%, 63.7%)
hsv (198.1, 40.7%, 80%)
lab (69.9, -12.4, -18.6)
xyz (34.9, 40.7, 63.1)
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Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to #79b3cc 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 Dark Sky Blue, Light Cornflower Blue, Pale Cerulean, Light Blue, Columbia Blue, Pale Aqua, Beau Blue, Alice Blue, Cultured, Azure (X11/web Color) and 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 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 Slate Gray, Teal Blue, Light Slate Gray, Steel Teal, Deep Space Sparkle, Cadet, Dark Electric Blue, Payne's Grey, Outer Space (Crayola), Gunmetal, Charcoal, Onyx, Eerie Black, Charleston Green, Rich Black (FOGRA29) and Dark Jungle Green.
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 Pewter Blue, Dark Sky Blue, Cadet Grey, Pale Cerulean, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Silver Chalice, Quick Silver and Silver (Metallic).
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, Verdigris, Cadet Blue, Blue Sapphire, Dark Sky Blue, Maximum Blue, Indigo Dye, USAFA Blue, Iceberg and Wild Blue Yonder.
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, Kobicha, Dark Brown, 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, yellow and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Teal Blue, CG Blue, Army Green, Rifle Green, Sage, Laurel Green, Old Mauve, Wine Dregs, Puce and Charm 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, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac, Pink Lavender, Kobicha, Dark Brown, Tumbleweed, Antique Brass, Hunter Green, Brunswick Green, Dark Sea Green and Eton Blue.
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