#85b3b3It is a bright grayish cyan color having an approximate luminance of 70%. It has a hue value of 180° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Green Sheen, Opal, Cadet Blue, Morning Blue, Verdigris, Pewter Blue, Cambridge Blue, Crystal, Maximum Blue Green and Polished Pine. 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 #85b3b3 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (133, 179, 179)
#85b3b3
hsl (180, 23.2%, 61.2%)
hsv (180, 25.7%, 70.2%)
lab (69.8, -15.2, -5)
xyz (33.9, 40.5, 48.7)
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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 #85b3b3 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 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 Opal, Crystal, Powder Blue, Light Blue, Azure (X11/web Color), Mint Cream, Light Cyan, Gainsboro, Cultured and Alice Blue.
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 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 Steel Teal, Wintergreen Dream, Xanadu, Ming, Deep Space Sparkle, Feldgrau, Dark Slate Gray, Cadet, Outer Space (Crayola), Gunmetal, Onyx, Charleston Green, 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 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 Morning Blue, Opal, Pewter Blue, Ash Gray, Silver Chalice, Cadet Grey, Quick Silver, Silver (Metallic) and Spanish Gray.
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 green, cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Brunswick Green, English Green, Cambridge Blue, Morning Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Deep Jungle Green, Green Sheen, Opal, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue 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, Wintergreen Dream, 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 violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Teal, Wintergreen Dream, Café Noir, Dark Lava, Khaki (Web), Grullo, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, 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 yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Steel Teal, Wintergreen Dream, Independence, Purple Navy, Wild Blue Yonder, Blue Bell, Rose Ebony, Dark Liver (horses), Tuscany, Pastel Pink, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Sage and Laurel Green.
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