When Antique Bluff into Shifting

#48adbe RGB(72,173,190)

About this color

When Antique Bluff into Shifting is a moderate, medium cyan tone, fixed at #48adbe in the RGB color space.

#48adbeRGB(72, 173, 190)

HSL 189° · 48% saturation · 51% lightness

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Psychology

Mid cyan is strongly associated with technology, precision, and a certain crisp modernity.

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History

Cyan as a printing ink became central to modern colour reproduction — the C in CMYK — because its complement to red allows the full printable colour range.

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Design use

Practically, this medium cyan is comfortable as interactive elements, tags, badges, and highlight states. It has enough saturation to register clearly without straining extended-reading contexts.

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Colour pairings

For palette building, cyan complements warm reds and red-oranges — a palette of technological energy. For calmer use, pair with white, light grey, and the lightest tints of the same hue.

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Color Categories

Color formats

Name
When Antique Bluff into Shifting
HEX
#48adbe
RGB
rgb(72,173,190)
RGB%
rgb(28.2%,67.8%,74.5%)
HSL
hsl(189,48%,51%)
HSV
hsv(189,62%,75%)
CMYK
cmyk(62,9,0,25)
LAB
lab(66,-24,-17)
LCH
lch(66,29,215)
sRGB
(0.282,0.678,0.745)
HEX8
#48adbeff
CSS Name
Decimal
072173190

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Color info

Lightness
51%
Saturation
48%
Hue
189°
Chroma
29
Temperature
WarmCool
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