#A0BDC5

A light, muted cyan closely aligning with Lightblue.

About #A0BDC5

When working with digital screens, the color #A0BDC5 is rendered by mixing light. If you're using CSS, you might find it aligns closely with Lightblue. In the RGB color space, it consists of 160 red, 189 green, and 197 blue.

If you are designing for print, the four-color process is what matters most. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 19% cyan and 4% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 193.0° hue, 24.2% saturation, and 70.0% lightness.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. Because it is a light color, it is generally recommended to use #000000 text. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#A0BDC5
RGB160, 189, 197
HSL193.0°, 24.2%, 70.0%
CMYK19%, 4%, 0%, 23%
HSV193.0°, 18.8%, 77.3%
LAB74.8, -8.1, -7.3
XYZ42.8, 47.9, 59.8
Decimal10534341

Color Harmonies

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

Shades (Adding Black)

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

1.98:1
Text on #FFFFFF
FAIL
10.58:1
Text on #000000
AAA
1.90:1
Text on #F8FAFC
FAIL
8.99:1
Text on #0F172A
AAA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #A0BDC5; }
.text-color { color: #A0BDC5; }
.border-color { border: 2px solid #A0BDC5; }

Similar Colors

Lightblue
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