#a8a1cfIt is a bright pastel blue color having an approximate luminance of 68%. It has a hue value of 249° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Blue Bell, Maximum Blue Purple, Wild Blue Yonder, Glossy Grape, Wisteria, Cool Grey, Lilac, Heliotrope Gray, Rose Quartz and Lilac Luster. 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 #a8a1cf to rgb, hexadecimal, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz colorspaces. Each format represents the same color.
rgb (168, 161, 207)
#a8a1cf
hsl (249.1, 32.4%, 72.2%)
hsv (249.1, 22.2%, 81.2%)
lab (68.3, 12, -22.5)
xyz (40.2, 38.3, 64.3)
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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 #a8a1cf 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 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 Blue Bell, Lavender Blue, Periwinkle, Maximum Blue Purple, Languid Lavender, Light Periwinkle, Lavender Gray, Periwinkle (Crayola), Lavender (Web), Ghost White, Cultured, Snow 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 pastel 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, Old Lavender, Purple Mountain Majesty, Independence, Purple Navy, Dark Liver, Jet, Onyx, Black Coffee, Eigengrau, Raisin Black, 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 pastel 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 Blue Bell, Wild Blue Yonder, Glossy Grape, Maximum Blue Purple, Manatee, Rose Quartz, Heliotrope Gray, Silver (Metallic), Cadet Blue (Crayola), Quick Silver 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 azure, blue and magenta colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Indigo Dye, USAFA Blue, Iceberg, Little Boy Blue, Purple Navy, Cyber Grape, Blue Bell, Maximum Blue Purple, Japanese Violet, English Violet, Lilac and Pink Lavender.
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 blue, green and yellow colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, Army Green, Rifle Green, Sage and Olivine.
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 blue, cyan and orange colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, Blue-green (color Wheel), Brunswick Green, Green Sheen, Keppel, Kobicha, Dark Brown, Tumbleweed and Antique Brass.
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 blue, red, green, yellow and cyan colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Rhythm, Dark Blue-gray, Wine, Bole, Pastel Pink, Tuscany, Army Green, Rifle Green, Sage, Olivine, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Deep Jungle Green, Maximum Blue Green and Verdigris.
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