Serious Cloud 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 | #827b74 |
| Complementary Color | #8b837c |
| Color Shade: | cool cyan (210° hue) |
| Color Temperature: | cool |
| Lightness: | 51.76% (better contrasting with white) |
If you're looking for a similar cool cyan shade, there are some better alternatives to Serious Cloud Color. The Wall Street color for instance is a darker and a bit more vibrant option, however this color has a mid cyan bias. Consider a darker and more soft alternative called Beautiful Darkness (#686d70) for more calm effect. Try Platinum Grey as it also a bit more faded and calm.
#8b837c is the best complementary color to Serious Cloud. 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 #7d848b complementary color is Schooner, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.
The analogous palette of warm cyan, cool cyan, and cool blue colors offers a soft combination of similar cool shades. The analogous colors of Rolling Stone are #7c8b8a and #7c7d8b. Thus found on the left and right of #7d848b on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Gunsmoke and Waterloo colors as they work well with Serious Cloud.
The split-complementary Serious Cloud palette consists of #8b8a7c and #8b7c7d colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#8b837c). Try Granite Green and Hurricane colors in combination with #7d848b, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.
The triadic palette of #7d848b 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 Serious Cloud. Thus Battleship Gray and Suva Gray giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.
The square color palette of Serious Cloud contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Schooner, Mamba, and Xanadu split by 90° on the color wheel. #7d848b square combo is a palette of cool cyan, cool magenta, warm red and warm green shades that work together well.
The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Serious Cloud tetradic combo consists of warm red complementary color (#8b837c) and two others. The Suva Gray is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Blue Smoke – 120° from the complementary Schooner. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #8b7c84 and #7c8b83.
In a RGB color space, hex #7d848b is made of 32% red, 33% green and 35% blue. In a HSL mode Serious Cloud has a hue angle of 210°, a saturation of 5.69% and a lightness of 51.76%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #7d848b is made of 5.49% cyan, 2.75% magenta, 0% yellow and 45.49% black ink.
| HEX | #7d848b |
| RGB Decimal | rgb(125,132,139) |
| RGB Percentage | 32%, 33%, 35% |
| CMYK | 5.49, 2.75, 0, 45.49 |
| HSL | hsl(210,5.69%,51.76%) |
| HSV (or HSB) | hsv(210,10.07%,54.51%) |
| CIE-LAB | lab(54.7896,-1.0964,-4.6556) |
| XYZ | xyz(21.3689,22.7266,27.6865) |