Powder blue

#bac7c2

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for powder blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Powder blue sits in the green range, light and grey. Light greens like this signal fresh, natural and wellness. Warm terracotta and clay across the wheel balance it and cream keeps it fresh.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #bac7c2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bac7c2

RGB186, 199, 194

HSL157, 10%, 75%

HSV157, 7%, 78%

CMYK7%, 0%, 3%, 22%

Lab79.15, -5.38, 0.96

XYZ50.41, 55.18, 59.03

Decimal12240834

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5507 C

Shades of powder blue

#a6b7b1 #93a79f #7f978e #6d867d #5d736a #4d5f58 #3d4c46 #2d3834 #1e2422 #0e1110

Tints of powder blue

#c0ccc7 #c6d1cc #ccd5d2 #d2dad7 #d8dfdc #dde4e1 #e3e9e7 #e9edec #eff2f1 #f5f7f6

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#c7babf Analogous#bac7bb Analogous#bac6c7 Triadic#c2bac7 Triadic#c7c2ba Split complementary#c7bac6 Split complementary#c7bbba

Powder blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 7, 0, 3, 22.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bac7c2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

7 0 3 22

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 4 7 28

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Powder blue in css

Copy #bac7c2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bac7c2; }
.text { color: #bac7c2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bac7c2; }

How powder blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Powder blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #bac7c2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bac7c2 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Powder blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #bac7c2 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around powder blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn powder blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #bac7c2 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from powder blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #bac7c2 are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.