#6e6ee6

Color #6e6ee6

A vivid, highly saturated light blue.

Closest named color Slate Blue #6a5acd · ΔE 8.3 Nearest Tailwind class indigo-500 #615fff · ΔE 5.3

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Conversions

HEX

#6e6ee6

RGB

rgb(110, 110, 230)

HSL

hsl(240, 70.6%, 66.7%)

HSV / HSB

hsv(240, 52.2%, 90.2%)

CMYK

cmyk(52.2%, 52.2%, 0%, 9.8%)

LAB

lab(52.04, 32.49, -61.15)

LCH

lch(52.04, 69.25, 297.98)

OKLCH

oklch(59.9%, 0.1772, 279.62)

HWB

hwb(240, 43.1%, 9.8%)

Harmony colors

Complementary

#e6e66e

Analogous

#6eaae6

#6e6ee6

#aa6ee6

Triadic

#6e6ee6

#e66e6e

#6ee66e

Split-complementary

#6e6ee6

#e6aa6e

#aae66e

Tetradic

#6e6ee6

#e66ee6

#e6e66e

#6ee66e

Square

#6e6ee6

#e66eaa

#e6e66e

#6ee6aa

Shades

Color #6e6ee6 mixed toward black.

#3e3ede

#2121c1

#191991

#111161

#080830

Tints

Color #6e6ee6 mixed toward white.

#8686ea

#9e9eee

#b7b7f3

#cfcff7

#e7e7fb

Tones

Color #6e6ee6 mixed toward gray.

#7878dc

#8282d2

#8c8cc8

#9696be

#a0a0b4

Accessibility

Aa White text on this color

4.17:1

Aa Black text on this color

5.04:1

Black text reads better on this background (5.04:1). That passes WCAG AA (≥4.5:1) for normal-size text, but not AAA.

Under color vision deficiencies

Protanopia

#6e6ed1 · ΔE 3

Deuteranopia

#6e6ecc · ΔE 3.8

Tritanopia

#6ebeba · ΔE 36.7

Achromatopsia

#7c7c7c · ΔE 27.1

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Code

CSS

background-color: #6e6ee6;

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

bg-[#6e6ee6]

Related colors

Navy #000080

Lavender #e6e6fa

Blue #0000ff

Dark Blue #00008b

Ghost White #f8f8ff

Medium Blue #0000cd

Frequently asked questions

#6e6ee6 (#6e6ee6) is rgb(110, 110, 230) in RGB.

No, #6e6ee6 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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