What color is Powder Blue?
Powder blue is a soft, pale blue with a slightly cool and airy quality, hex #B8E3E9, similar in tone to a clear winter sky. It has enough blue to read as a definite color but is light enough to feel almost translucent.
What is the meaning of the color Powder Blue?
Early recorded uses of the name connect it to powdered smalt, a blue pigment ground from cobalt glass and used by European painters and dyers from the 16th century onward. By the 18th century, the term appeared in English fabric and textile trade to describe pale blue cloth used in fashionable dress. The color gained broader cultural presence when it became associated with infant clothing conventions in the early 20th century, a practice documented in American department store catalogs by the 1920s. Tiffany and Co. later helped anchor a related pale blue in luxury retail, though powder blue itself is most concretely fixed to the 1927 Oxford English Dictionary entry that records it as an established color name.
What colors go with Powder Blue?
Similar Colors
Conversions & Codes
| Format | Value | CSS |
|---|---|---|
| HEX | #B8E3E9 |
color: #B8E3E9;
|
| RGB | 184, 227, 233 |
color: rgb(184, 227, 233);
|
| RGB Percentage | 72%, 89%, 91% |
color: rgb(72%, 89%, 91%);
|
| CMYK | 21%, 3%, 0%, 9% | Not supported in CSS |
| HSL | 187°, 53%, 82% |
color: hsl(187, 53%, 82%);
|
| HSV | 187°, 21%, 91% | Not supported in CSS |
| CIE-LAB | 66, -9, -2 |
color: lab(66% -9 -2);
|
| Decimal | 12116969 | Not supported in CSS |
Color Variations
Shades
Tints
Tones
Hues
Color Harmonies
Analogous
Complementary
Split Complementary
Triadic
Tetradic
Square
CSS & Dev Snippets
.powder-blue {
color: #B8E3E9;
}
$powder-blue: #B8E3E9;
rgb(184, 227, 233)