The Dictionary of
Color Combinations

blue · 10 palettes

Calamine BLue

About Calamine BLue

Calamine BLue is a mid-tone, muted blue tone. Its hex value is #78cdd0 — that is RGB 120, 205, 208, or HSL 182°, 48%, 64%.

It holds 11.4:1 contrast against dark, so Calamine BLue works best for body text, headings, and UI labels. (On white it scores 1.8:1; on black 11.4:1.)

Across Sanzo Wada's 1933 Dictionary of Color Combinations, Calamine BLue appears in 10 combinations — most often paired with Pyrite Yellow, Laelia Pink and Dark Citrine.

Palettes with Calamine BLue

Calamine BLue appears in 10 combinations from the archive. Each pairing reveals how the same color shifts character depending on its neighbours.

Embed this color

Drop a Calamine BLue swatch card into any blog post, design review, or color-study reference page. Links back to this color's detail.

<iframe src="https://colorcombinations.org/embed/colors/calamine-blue/" width="360" height="180" frameborder="0" style="border-radius:8px;overflow:hidden;" title="Calamine BLue — colorcombinations.org"></iframe>

Preview

From the archive

Support the archive The full catalog, on your disk, as a thank-you.

  • All 378 palettes (348 Wada + 30 editorial) in five formats
  • Figma design tokens (W3C-spec JSON, drag into any file)
  • Tailwind v4 + v3 configs — drop into any project
  • CSS custom properties — every plate, one stylesheet
  • 378 museum SVG plates — print-ready at any size
  • Full JSON — colors, names, eras, moods, dominant hues
See what's inside

Launching soon. The free archive stays free, always.