#8cb0bdIt is a bright grayish azure color having an approximate luminance of 70%. It has a hue value of 196° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Pewter Blue, Dark Sky Blue, Cadet Grey, Pale Cerulean, Air Superiority Blue, Light Cornflower Blue, Maximum Blue, Sky Blue, Baby Blue and Light Blue. 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 #8cb0bd to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (140, 176, 189)
#8cb0bd
hsl (195.9, 27.1%, 64.5%)
hsv (195.9, 25.9%, 74.1%)
lab (69.7, -9.2, -10.6)
xyz (35.5, 40.3, 54.1)
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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 #8cb0bd 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 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 Blue, Beau Blue, Pale Aqua, Columbia Blue, Gainsboro, Alice Blue, Light Gray, Platinum, 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 grayish 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, Light Slate Gray, Steel Teal, Cadet, Deep Space Sparkle, Black Coral, Payne's Grey, Outer Space (Crayola), Gunmetal, Onyx, Charcoal, Eerie Black, Charleston Green, 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 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, Cadet Grey, Dark Sky Blue, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Silver Chalice, Quick Silver, Silver (Metallic) and Gray (X11 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 cyan and azure colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Opal, Morning Blue, Pewter Blue, Dark Sky Blue, Charcoal, Indigo Dye, Cadet Grey and Cadet Blue (Crayola).
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, Ming, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver 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 azure, yellow and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Teal Blue, Ming, Rifle Green, Kombu Green, Sage, Laurel Green, Eggplant, Dark Byzantium, Lilac Luster and Heliotrope Gray.
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, Ming, English Violet, Eggplant, Lilac Luster, Rose Quartz, Dark Liver (horses), Liver, Silver Pink, Tuscany, Kombu Green, Rifle Green, Laurel Green and Cambridge Blue.
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