#8c98bcIt is a bright grayish blue color having an approximate luminance of 63%. It has a hue value of 225° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Cool Grey, Blue Bell, Wild Blue Yonder, Manatee, Shadow Blue, Maximum Blue Purple, Roman Silver, Cerulean Frost, Cadet Blue (Crayola) and Light Slate Gray. 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 #8c98bc to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (140, 152, 188)
#8c98bc
hsl (225, 26.4%, 64.3%)
hsv (225, 25.5%, 73.7%)
lab (63.1, 3.8, -20.1)
xyz (31.1, 31.7, 52.1)
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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 #8c98bc 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 blue color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Wild Blue Yonder, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Blue Bell, Light Steel Blue, Light Periwinkle, Periwinkle (Crayola), Lavender Gray, Lavender (Web), Ghost White, Cultured, Alice Blue and Snow.
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 blue color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, Slate Gray, Dark Electric Blue, Independence, Black Coral, Charcoal, Dark Liver, Gunmetal, Onyx, Jet, Raisin Black, Eigengrau, Eerie 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 grayish blue color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to Cool Grey, Manatee, Wild Blue Yonder, Shadow Blue, Roman Silver, Spanish Gray, 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 azure and violet colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Indigo Dye, Charcoal, Dark Sky Blue, Iceberg, Independence, Purple Navy, Wild Blue Yonder, Blue Bell, English Violet, Dark Byzantium, Lilac and Glossy Grape.
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 Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, Army Green, Olive Drab 7, Sage and Sand.
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 Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, English Green, Brunswick Green, Cambridge Blue, Green Sheen, Dark Liver (horses), Rose Ebony, Tuscany and Pastel 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, red, yellow and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, Catawba, Old Mauve, Pastel Pink, Tuscany, Army Green, Olive Drab 7, Sage, Sand, Deep Jungle Green, Warm Black, Green Sheen and Verdigris.
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