#a685c7It is a bright pastel violet color having an approximate luminance of 61%. It has a hue value of 270° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are African Violet, Purple Mountain Majesty, Lavender (floral), Middle Blue Purple, Glossy Grape, Wisteria, Medium Purple, Amethyst, Bright Lilac and Blue Bell. 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 #a685c7 to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (166, 133, 199)
#a685c7
hsl (270, 37.1%, 65.1%)
hsv (270, 33.2%, 78%)
lab (60.8, 25.4, -29.6)
xyz (34.4, 29, 57.8)
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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 #a685c7 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 violet color to white. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets brigther and brighter.
This color scale contains similar colors to Wisteria, Lilac, Glossy Grape, Blue Bell, Thistle, Pink Lavender, Languid Lavender, Pale Purple (Pantone), Lavender (Web), Ghost White, Lavender Blush 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 pastel violet color to black. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets darker and darker.
This color scale contains similar colors to French Lilac, Pomp And Power, Chinese Violet, Dark Blue-gray, English Violet, Cyber Grape, Dark Byzantium, Independence, Dark Purple, Black Coffee, Eigengrau, Raisin Black, Eerie Black and Smoky Black.
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 violet color to gray. The coldness of the color remains the same as it gets grayer and grayer.
This color scale contains similar colors to African Violet, Glossy Grape, Purple Mountain Majesty, Opera Mauve, Lilac Luster, Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz, Taupe Gray, Manatee, Roman Silver 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 azure, violet and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Cornflower Blue, USAFA Blue, Little Boy Blue, French Sky Blue, Cyber Grape, Eminence, Wisteria, Bright Lilac, Byzantium, Palatinate Purple, Orchid (Crayola) and Kobi.
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 colors. There are variants of violet and green colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Middle Blue Purple, Purple Mountain Majesty, Lincoln Green, Dark Moss Green, Olivine and Asparagus.
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 violet, cyan and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Middle Blue Purple, Purple Mountain Majesty, Deep Jungle Green, Warm Black, Tiffany Blue, Maximum Blue Green, Pullman Brown (UPS Brown), Sepia, Fawn and Earth Yellow.
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 violet, red, green and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Middle Blue Purple, Purple Mountain Majesty, Liver (organ), Burnt Umber, Dark Salmon, Middle Red, Lincoln Green, Dark Moss Green, Olivine, Asparagus, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Dark Slate Gray, Pacific Blue and Maximum Blue.
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