Powder blue

#c3f4fc

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

Powder blue is a pale teal, gentle between blue and green. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Powder blue color values

Every conversion for #c3f4fc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c3f4fc

RGB195, 244, 252

HSL188, 90%, 88%

HSV188, 23%, 99%

CMYK23%, 3%, 0%, 1%

Lab93.16, -13.82, -8.99

XYZ72.43, 83.33, 104.36

Decimal12842236

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone2975 C

Shades of powder blue

#9bedfa #74e5f8 #4cdef6 #24d7f4 #0bc5e3 #09a3bc #078094 #055e6c #033c45 #01191d

Tints of powder blue

#c7f5fc #ccf6fc #d0f6fd #d4f7fd #d8f8fd #ddf9fd #e1fafe #e5fafe #eafbfe #eefcfe

Colors that go with powder blue

Complementary#fccbc3 Analogous#c3fce8 Analogous#c3d7fc Triadic#fcc3f4 Triadic#f4fcc3 Split complementary#fcc3d7 Split complementary#fce8c3

Powder blue in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 23, 3, 0, 1.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c3f4fc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

23 3 0 1

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

25 7 4 7

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #c3f4fc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c3f4fc; }
.text { color: #c3f4fc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c3f4fc; }

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 #c3f4fc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c3f4fc 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 #c3f4fc 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 #c3f4fc 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 #c3f4fc are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.