Cadet Blue Color Codes

Cadet Blue is a mid-tone, desaturated teal with the hex code #5F9EA0, RGB values of 95, 158, 160 and an HSL value of hsl(182, 25%, 50%).

HEX	#5F9EA0
RGB	95, 158, 160
HSL	hsl(182, 25%, 50%)
HSV	182°, 41%, 63%
CMYK	41%, 1%, 0%, 37%
LAB	61.15, -19.68, -7.42
CIELCHuv	61.15, 30.16, 195.27°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 5483 C ΔE 5.8 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: cadetblue ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'CadetBlue'

Cadet Blue Color Hex Code

The Cadet Blue color hex code is #5F9EA0. Those six digits are three pairs, 5F for red, 9E for green and A0 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#5F9EA0

Cadet Blue Color RGB Code

The Cadet Blue RGB code is rgb(95, 158, 160). Blue carries the most light at 160 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(95, 158, 160)

Cadet Blue Color HSV Code

The Cadet Blue HSV code is 182°, 41%, 63%. Read it as a hue of 182 degrees, 41% saturation and 63% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

182°, 41%, 63%

Cadet Blue Color CIELChuv Code

The Cadet Blue CIELCHuv code is 61.15, 30.16, 195.27°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 61 means mid-toned to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 30 is how far it sits from grey.

61.15, 30.16, 195.27°

Tonal scale

What are Cadet Blue Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Cadet Blue Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #5F9EA0. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

The opposite hue is #A0615F, a mid-tone, desaturated red. Complements carry the strongest contrast of any two-color scheme, so this pair suits a call to action better than a background. Neither is especially saturated, so this pairing stays calm enough for large areas of both.

Analogous

Its two neighbours are #5FA082 and #5F7EA0. Because they overlap heavily in hue, nothing in the group competes, and the eye reads the whole set as a single color with variation.

Triadic

#A05F9E and #9EA05F complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #A05F7E and #A0825F. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #A0615F, and #825FA0 with #7EA05F. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

3.05:1

3.05

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Black background

6.88:1

6.88

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

Against white Cadet Blue reaches 3.05:1, enough for large text and UI borders, but short of the 4.5:1 that body copy needs. Darken it for anything set small. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 6.88:1.

Check Cadet Blue against another color →

Color vision

How Cadet Blue looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#7F80A0

Cadet Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 28.9

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#7B769F

Cadet Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 35.1

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#639F9F

Cadet Blue holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 1.4

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#949494

Cadet Blue shifts noticeably here. ΔE 21.0

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Cadet Blue reads as #7B769F. That is a shift of ΔE 35.1, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 35.1. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Cadet Blue in code

:root {
  --cadet-blue: #5F9EA0;
}

.example {
  color: var(--cadet-blue);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'cadet-blue': '#5F9EA0',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let cadetBlue = Color(
    red: 0.373,
    green: 0.620,
    blue: 0.627
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="cadet_blue">#5F9EA0</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const cadetBlue = Color(0xFF5F9EA0);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Cadet Blue Color?

Cadet Blue reads as distance and quiet. It is saturated enough to notice and restrained enough to repeat, and at 25% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 61 it behaves as a cool color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Cadet Blue Color?

In CSS you can write CadetBlue instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 5483 C at #609191. The name Cadet Blue comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Cadet Blue Color Made?

On a screen Cadet Blue is made by additive light: 95 red, 158 green and 160 blue out of 255, with blue leading and 95 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 41%, 1%, 0%, 37%. Starting from the pure hue at 182 degrees, Cadet Blue is a tone, so it is that hue knocked back with grey.