Information about #A9CAE5 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A clearly saturated steel-blue azure, #A9CAE5 has a delicate, washed-out lightness. Designers typically reach for tones like this for airy backdrops, whitespace-heavy designs and gentle gradients. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Tropical Blue (#AEC9EB). Slightly further away sit Time Out (#AAC2E3) and Sail (#A5CEEC).
In RGB terms — rgb(169, 202, 229) — the blue channel does the heavy lifting here. On this background, black text reaches a 12.3:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); white stays at 1.7:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #A9CAE5 is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#A9CAE5 color variations
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#A9CAE5 color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#A9CAE5 color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#A9CAE5 color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
#A9CAE5 color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#A9CAE5 color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Split complementary
Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.
Tetradic
Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Square
Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.
Alternatives to #A9CAE5 color
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Nearest named colors to #A9CAE5
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#AEC9EB
#AAC2E3
#A5CEEC
#ABCDEF
#A4D2E0
#B0C4DE
#A0CFEC
#AFC0EA
#B7C9E2
#A1CAF1
#ADD8E6
#ACC2D9
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#A9CAE5
- RGB169, 202, 229
- CMYK24, 11, 0, 10
- CSSrgb(169, 202, 229)
- HSL207°, 54%, 78%
- HSL Precise207°, 53.571%, 78.039%
- HSV207°, 26%, 90%
- HSB207°, 26%, 90%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.663
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.792
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.898
- GLSLvec3(0.663, 0.792, 0.898)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.663, 0.792, 0.898, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.663, 0.792, 0.898)
- Percentage of Red in RGB66.3%
- Percentage of Green in RGB79.2%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB89.8%
- Color FamilyAzure
- Saturation FamilyModerate Saturation
- Lightness FamilyVery Light
- HEX IDA9CAE5
- DECIMAL ID11127525
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers12 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
