#85a3c9It is a bright pastel azure color having an approximate luminance of 66%. It has a hue value of 214° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cerulean Frost, Iceberg, Little Boy Blue, Air Superiority Blue, Livid, Blue-gray, Wild Blue Yonder, United Nations Blue, Carolina Blue and Aero. 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 #85a3c9 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (133, 163, 201)
#85a3c9
hsl (213.5, 38.6%, 65.5%)
hsv (213.5, 33.8%, 78.8%)
lab (66.1, -1.2, -22.8)
xyz (33.3, 35.4, 60.3)
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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 #85a3c9 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 Light Steel Blue, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, Pale Cerulean, Periwinkle (Crayola), Light Periwinkle, Pale Aqua, Lavender (Web), Beau Blue, Alice Blue, Ghost White, Cultured 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, Blue Yonder, Queen Blue, Glaucous, Black Coral, Independence, Payne's Grey, Dark Electric Blue, Gunmetal, Charcoal, Onyx, Outer Space (Crayola), Eerie Black, Eigengrau, Raisin Black 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 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 Cadet Grey, Wild Blue Yonder, Air Superiority Blue, Cerulean Frost, Manatee, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Cool Grey, Silver (Metallic), Quick Silver, Spanish Gray and Silver Chalice.
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, azure and blue colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Blue Sapphire, Dark Sky Blue, Maximum Blue, Indigo Dye, Dark Cornflower Blue, Iceberg, Wild Blue Yonder, Independence, Purple Navy, Blue Bell and Maximum Blue Purple.
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 Blue Yonder, Glaucous, Olive Drab 7, Field Drab, Light French Beige and Khaki (Web).
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, Glaucous, Hunter Green, English Green, Dark Sea Green, Eton Blue, Wine, Bole, Pastel Pink and Tuscany.
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, orange and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Blue Yonder, Glaucous, Old Mauve, Wine Dregs, Puce, Charm Pink, Olive Drab 7, Field Drab, Light French Beige, Khaki (Web), Blue-green (color Wheel), Brunswick Green, Green Sheen and Polished Pine.
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