#5399ea

Color #5399ea

A vivid, highly saturated light blue.

Closest named color Cornflower Blue #6495ed · ΔE 6.71 Nearest Tailwind class blue-400 #51a2ff · ΔE 3.2

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Conversions

HEX

#5399ea

RGB

rgb(83, 153, 234)

HSL

hsl(212.2, 78.2%, 62.2%)

HSV / HSB

hsv(212.2, 64.5%, 91.8%)

CMYK

cmyk(64.5%, 34.6%, 0%, 8.2%)

LAB

lab(62.13, 2.91, -47.36)

LCH

lch(62.13, 47.45, 273.52)

OKLCH

oklch(67.4%, 0.1401, 253.49)

HWB

hwb(212.2, 32.5%, 8.2%)

Harmony colors

Complementary

#eaa453

Analogous

#53e4ea

#5399ea

#5953ea

Triadic

#5399ea

#ea5399

#99ea53

Split-complementary

#5399ea

#ea5953

#e4ea53

Tetradic

#5399ea

#a453ea

#eaa453

#99ea53

Square

#5399ea

#ea53e4

#eaa453

#53ea59

Shades

Color #5399ea mixed toward black.

#247de4

#1764bc

#114b8d

#0c325e

#06192f

Tints

Color #5399ea mixed toward white.

#70aaed

#8cbbf1

#a9ccf4

#c6ddf8

#e2eefb

Tones

Color #5399ea mixed toward gray.

#609add

#6c9bd1

#799cc4

#859db8

#929eab

Accessibility

Aa White text on this color

2.95:1

Aa Black text on this color

7.11:1

Black text reads better on this background (7.11:1). That passes WCAG AAA (≥7:1) for normal-size text.

Under color vision deficiencies

Protanopia

#7878da · ΔE 15.5

Deuteranopia

#746ed6 · ΔE 18.1

Tritanopia

#58ccc9 · ΔE 28.5

Achromatopsia

#969696 · ΔE 23

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Code

CSS

background-color: #5399ea;

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

bg-[#5399ea]

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Frequently asked questions

#5399ea (#5399ea) is rgb(83, 153, 234) in RGB.

No, #5399ea is not one of the 216 web-safe colors — for that, every RGB channel would have to be a multiple of 51.

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