Dusty blue color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around dusty blue. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

A soft, hazy blue with the chroma pulled down. It sits between slate and powder blue, and it is the blue most often asked for by wedding stationers.

Dusty blue hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#8299AE

HEX: #8299AE
RGB: rgb(130, 153, 174)
HSL: hsl(209, 21%, 60%)
OKLCH: oklch(67.2% 0.041 246.0)
On white: 2.95:1
On black: 7.12:1

Shades of dusty blue

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Dusty blue color values

#8299AErgb(130, 153, 174)

Color spaces of #8299ae
RGB	130	153	174
HSL	209°	21%	60%
HSV	209°	25%	68%
CMYK	0.25	0.12	0.00	0.32
XYZ	28.2350	30.5833	44.4517
Yxy	30.5833	0.2734	0.2961
CIE-Lab	62.1543	-3.2513	-13.6189
Hunter Lab	55.3022	-5.6442	-8.9456
OKLCH	67.2%	0.041	246.0°

#8299AE is 130 red, 153 green and 174 blue. Its blue channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #999999.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	10000010	10011001	10101110
Octal	202	231	256
Decimal	130	153	174
Hex	82	99	AE

#8299ae mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#8299AE
#75899C
#687A8B
#5B6B79
#4E5B68
#414C57
#343D45
#272D34
#191E22
#0C0F11
#000000

#8299ae mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#8299AE
#8EA3B6
#9BADBE
#A7B7C6
#B4C1CE
#C0CCD6
#CDD6DE
#D9E0E6
#E6EAEE
#F2F4F6
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red28.4%
Green33.5%
Blue38.1%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#8299AE
#A8917C

Triadic

#8299AE
#AD8C92
#909B80

Analogous

#8299AE
#8F94B0
#7A9DA6

Monochromatic

#1F3344
#3E5366
#5F7589
#8299AE
#A7BFD4
#CDE5FC
#F3F9FF

#8299ae on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 7.12:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 2.95:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #8299ae

color: #8299ae;
background-color: #8299ae;
border: 3px solid #8299ae;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #8299ae;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(130, 153, 174, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(67.2% 0.041 246.0);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Dusty blue on white measures 2.95:1 and on black 7.12:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.27:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

Related colors: blue, navy, royal blue, cobalt, periwinkle, transparent blue. See every shade on the colors index.

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