Chinese Porcelain Color

#3a5f7d

Chinese Porcelain is pale, cool-toned shade of cool cyan. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with warm red, warm green or warm magenta

Inverse Color #c5a082
Complementary Color #7d583a
Color Shade: cool cyan (206.87° hue)
Color Temperature: cool
Lightness: 35.88% (better contrasting with white)
Chinese Porcelain Color Sample
Chinese Porcelain Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #3a5f7d

If you're looking for a similar cool cyan shade, there are some better alternatives to Chinese Porcelain Color. The Blue Antarctic color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a mid cyan bias. Consider a darker and more soft alternative called Deep Sea Blue (#2a4b5a) for more calm effect. Try Cry Me a River as it also a bit more vibrant and energetic.

Complementary Palette

#7d583a is the best complementary color to Chinese Porcelain. Warm red shades generally complement the cool cyan hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #3a5f7d complementary color is Spicy Mix, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of warm cyan, cool cyan, and cool blue colors offers a soft combination of similar cool shades. The analogous colors of Ming are #3a7d79 and #3a3d7d. Thus found on the left and right of #3a5f7d on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Oracle and East Bay colors as they work well with Chinese Porcelain.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Chinese Porcelain palette consists of #7d793a and #7d3a3d colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#7d583a). Try Pesto and Lotus colors in combination with #3a5f7d, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #3a5f7d offers a combination of cool yellow and warm magenta shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Chinese Porcelain. Thus Fern Green and Cosmic giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Chinese Porcelain contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Spicy Mix, Vivid Violet, and Goblin split by 90° on the color wheel. #3a5f7d square combo is a palette of cool cyan, cool magenta, warm red and warm green shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Chinese Porcelain tetradic combo consists of warm red complementary color (#7d583a) and two others. The Cosmic is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Amazon – 120° from the complementary Spicy Mix. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #7d3a5e and #3a7d58.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #3a5f7d is made of 21% red, 34% green and 45% blue. In a HSL mode Chinese Porcelain has a hue angle of 206.87°, a saturation of 36.61% and a lightness of 35.88%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #3a5f7d is made of 26.27% cyan, 11.77% magenta, 0% yellow and 50.98% black ink.

HEX #3a5f7d
RGB Decimal rgb(58,95,125)
RGB Percentage 21%, 34%, 45%
CMYK 26.27, 11.77, 0, 50.98
HSL hsl(206.87,36.61%,35.88%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(206.87,53.6%,49.02%)
CIE-LAB lab(38.8373,-4.011,-20.8934)
XYZ xyz(9.5388,10.5646,20.9385)
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