Periwinkle (Crayola)It is a bright pastel azure color having an approximate luminance of 82%. It has a hue value of 223° indicating that this is a cold color.
Some of the most similar colors to this color are Light Periwinkle, Light Steel Blue, Lavender Gray, Pale Aqua, Beau Blue, Lavender (Web), Cadet Blue (Crayola), Lavender Blue, Periwinkle and Wild Blue Yonder. A little below you will find the most similar RAL, Pantone and Sherwin-Williams colors too.
The following list contains the conversion results of color Periwinkle (Crayola) to RGB, hexadecimal, HSL, HSV, Lab and XYZ colorspaces: each format represents the same color.
rgb(195, 205, 230)#c3cde6hsl(222.9, 41.2%, 83.3%)hsv(222.9, 15.2%, 90.2%)lab(82.4, 1.6, -13.5)xyz(58.6, 61, 83.5)The hexadecimal, RGB and HSL values can be used in CSS files to define colors of different objects. Select a value easily by clicking on it!
The most important note: in real life paints might have a different shade compared to as they appear on your display. You shall always consult and double-check colors with a professional paint provider before you order.
The following list contains the nearest matching standard colors. The left hexagon is the reference, the right one is the matched color. For each color there is a link to our partner MyPerfectColor.com, where you can buy paints of the corresponding colors.
PANTONE and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc., Sherwin-Williams colors are property of The Sherwin-Williams Company.
Tints, shades and tones are generated from the base color by adding white, black and gray paint to it 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 Periwinkle (Crayola) color. This process results a scale from a bright pastel 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 Periwinkle, Lavender (Web), Lavender Gray, Ghost White, Alice Blue, Cultured and White.
Shades
These are the color variants which are generated by adding black color to the base Periwinkle (Crayola) color. This process results a scale from a bright pastel 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 Manatee, Cool Grey, Roman Silver, Shadow Blue, Black Coral, Dim Gray, Granite Gray, Payne's Grey, Onyx, Charcoal, Dark Liver, Jet, Eerie Black, Raisin Black, Eigengrau and Charleston Green.
Tones
These are the color variants which are generated by adding gray color to the base Periwinkle (Crayola) color. This process results a scale from a bright pastel 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 Light Periwinkle, Lavender Gray, Light Steel Blue, Light Gray, Silver Sand, Silver 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, azure, violet and rose colors in the above items, which contain similar colors to Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Green (Eagle Green), Pewter Blue, Dark Sky Blue, Charcoal, Indigo Dye, Cadet Grey, Independence, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, English Violet, Rose Quartz, Heliotrope Gray, Eggplant, Dark Byzantium and Lilac Luster.
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 Charcoal, Prussian Blue, Shadow Blue, Roman Silver, Light Periwinkle, Olive Drab 7, Black Olive, Shadow, Middle Grey, Bone and Dutch White.
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 Independence, Charcoal, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, Kombu Green, MSU Green, Cambridge Blue, Morning Blue, Dark Liver (horses), Rose Ebony, Tuscany and Silver 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 Independence, Charcoal, Cadet Blue (Crayola), Wild Blue Yonder, Rose Ebony, Eggplant, Tuscany, Silver Pink, Olive Drab 7, Rifle Green, Khaki (Web), Grullo, Dark Slate Gray, MSU Green, Opal and Morning Blue.
If you want to have a more detailed control of the colors in the schemes, have a look at the Spektran application too!
You can link and share this page in multiple ways according to the color format you would like to use.
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