#79b4baIt is a bright pastel cyan color having an approximate luminance of 70%. It has a hue value of 186° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cadet Blue, Green Sheen, Verdigris, Maximum Blue Green, Dark Sky Blue, Middle Blue, Pewter Blue, Maximum Blue, Opal and Sky Blue (Crayola). 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 #79b4ba to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (121, 180, 186)
#79b4ba
hsl (185.5, 32%, 60.2%)
hsv (185.5, 34.9%, 72.9%)
lab (69.6, -17.5, -9.1)
xyz (33.1, 40.3, 52.5)
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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 #79b4ba 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 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 Crystal, Opal, Powder Blue, Light Blue, Blizzard Blue, Azure (X11/web Color), Light Cyan, Columbia Blue, Mint Cream, 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 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 Steel Teal, Wintergreen Dream, Ming, Metallic Seaweed, Deep Space Sparkle, Dark Slate Gray, Feldgrau, Cadet, Outer Space (Crayola), Gunmetal, Charleston Green, Charcoal, 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 bright pastel 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 Pewter Blue, Opal, Dark Sky Blue, Cadet Blue, Morning Blue, Cadet Grey, Ash Gray, 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, green and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Brunswick Green, English Green, Green Sheen, Polished Pine, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Deep Jungle Green, Cadet Blue, Blue Sapphire, Dark Sky Blue and Pewter 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 Ming, Metallic Seaweed, Rose Ebony, Bole, Pastel Pink and Tuscany.
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 Ming, Metallic Seaweed, Olive Drab 7, Café Noir, Khaki (Web), Light French Beige, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac and Pink Lavender.
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 yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Ming, Metallic Seaweed, Independence, Purple Navy, Blue Bell, Wild Blue Yonder, Rose Ebony, Bole, Pastel Pink, Tuscany, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Laurel Green and Sage.
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