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cyan · cool

#0076af

a dark, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Steel Blue

Token name suggestion: Slate Reef

RGB
0, 118, 175
HSL
200°, 100%, 34%
CMYK
100, 33, 0, 31
Luminance
0.1605

#0076af is a dark electric cyan, 200° on the wheel and 96/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.99:1). As text it scores 4.99:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Steel Blue, nearest Tailwind family is blue.

hsl(200 100% 34%)rgb(0 118 175)Base step 800AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0076af is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0076af
Hue
200°
cyan
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
34%
dark
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
42%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1605
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
96/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
4.99:1
Closest name
Steel Blue
ΔE2000 6.2
Chroma
38.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.540
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
blue
500 · ΔE 12
Web-safe
#006699
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue200° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness34%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0076af.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool96% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red0%
Green81%
Blue19%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#0076af
HEX (8-digit)#0076afff
RGBrgb(0, 118, 175)
RGBArgba(0, 118, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(200, 100%, 34%)
HSV / HSBhsv(200, 100%, 69%)
HWBhwb(200 0% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(100%, 33%, 0%, 31%)
LABlab(47.0 -6.3 -37.9)
LCHlch(47.0 38.5 260.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.540 0.124 240.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.21, 16.05, 42.90)
Decimal30383
Display P3color(display-p3 0.000 0.463 0.686)
Web-safe#006699

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0076af;
background-color: #0076af;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0076af;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0076af] bg-[#0076af]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0076af;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.000, green: 0.463, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.000, green: 0.463, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0076AF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0076AF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0076AF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 118, 0)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(0, 118, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(0, 118, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 118, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0000f, 0.4627f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{0,118,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0076af 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0076af 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#005680, #D3E5EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0076af h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F1FAFE;
  --brand-100: #E3F4FC;
  --brand-200: #C0E8FC;
  --brand-300: #8FDBFF;
  --brand-400: #57C8FF;
  --brand-500: #1FB6FF;
  --brand-600: #00A5F5;
  --brand-700: #008ACC;
  --brand-800: #0076af;
  --brand-900: #055176;
  --brand-950: #033349;
  --brand: #0076af;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F8FA;
  --brand-border: #C0DEED;
  --brand-hover: #005E8B;
  --brand-pressed: #004668;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141F24;
    --brand-ink: #D3E5EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FAFE',
        100: '#E3F4FC',
        200: '#C0E8FC',
        300: '#8FDBFF',
        400: '#57C8FF',
        500: '#1FB6FF',
        600: '#00A5F5',
        700: '#008ACC',
        800: '#0076af',
        900: '#055176',
        950: '#033349',
        DEFAULT: '#0076af',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FAFE,
  '100': #E3F4FC,
  '200': #C0E8FC,
  '300': #8FDBFF,
  '400': #57C8FF,
  '500': #1FB6FF,
  '600': #00A5F5,
  '700': #008ACC,
  '800': #0076af,
  '900': #055176,
  '950': #033349,
);
$brand-base: #0076af;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FAFE", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3F4FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C0E8FC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FDBFF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#57C8FF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#1FB6FF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#00A5F5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#008ACC", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0076af", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#055176", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#033349", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #0076af · 4.99:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.99:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.21:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #0076af as text scores 4.99:1 on white and 4.21:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E5F7FF at 4.53:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#0076af · 4.99:1
AA on whitealready passes
#0076af
The quick fox
#005E8B · 7.06:1
AAA on white−7% L
#005E8B
The quick fox
#007DB9 · 4.63:1
AA on black+2% L
#007DB9
The quick fox
#009FEC · 7.17:1
AAA on black+12% L
#009FEC

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0076AF is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#0076af on white: 4.99:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0076af on black: 4.21:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0076af as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0076af.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.99:1AaAa
Slate 504.77:1AaAa
Slate 1004.55:1AaAa
Slate 2004.05:1AaAa
Slate 3003.36:1AaAa
Slate 4001.95:1AaAa
Slate 5001.05:1AaAa
Slate 6001.52:1AaAa
Slate 7002.08:1AaAa
Slate 8002.93:1AaAa
Slate 9003.58:1AaAa
Black4.21:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #5A77B1
deuteranopia · #4469AE
tritanopia · #00848A

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #0076af is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FAFE
#E3F4FC
#C0E8FC
#8FDBFF
#57C8FF
#1FB6FF
#00A5F5
#008ACC
#0076af
#055176
#033349
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F1FAFEDarkest = 950 · #033349Text step on white = 800
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.031 240.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.050 240.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.075 240.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.097 240.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.114 240.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.124 240.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.124 240.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.117 240.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.104 240.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.087 240.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.068 240.3);
}

Colors that work with #0076af

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F4F8FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0DEED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B819B
Captions on the surface
Accent#AF0D00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#005680
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E5F7FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141F24
Dark-mode background
Hover#005E8B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#004668
Two steps down
Disabled#7798A8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0084C3
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #0076af

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight66/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#AF3900
Analogous left#00AF90
Analogous right#001FAF
Split-complement 1#AF001F
Split-complement 2#AF9000
Triadic 1#AF0076
Triadic 2#76AF00
Tetradic#9000AF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°200°

#0076af sits at 200°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red0.0%
Green46.3%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
0
0x00
G · 0–255
118
0x76
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan100.0%
Magenta32.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)31.4%

Total ink coverage is 164%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0076af text on a black background

contrast 4.21:1

Card sample

#0076af text on a white background

contrast 4.99:1

Card sample

#0076af on grey

4.55:1

#0076af on its own surface

4.67:1

#0076af on its dark surface

3.37:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0076af;
Background color
Panel with #0076af background
background-color: #0076af;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0076af;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(0, 118, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(0, 118, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0076af;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0076af, #0001AF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0076af, #2A00AF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0076af;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0076af;
caret-color: #0076af;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0076af;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E5F7FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0076af;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0076af 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0076af over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(0, 118, 175, 0.5)
rgb(0 118 175 / 50%)
#0076af80
hsl(200 100% 34% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0076af 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0076af1a#E6F1F7
20%#0076af33#CCE4EF
40%#0076af66#99C8DF
60%#0076af99#66ADCF
80%#0076afcc#3391BF

Gradients from #0076af

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #009FEC, #0076af 45%, #005680);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0076af, #0B0090);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0076af, #AF3900);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #0CB0FF 0%, #0076af 45%, #005680 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F8FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #00E2A8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #0013CE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #005680 0%, transparent 65%), #0076af;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0076af

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#0076af in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 4.21:1 — lift it to #007DB9 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#0076af, answered

What color is #0076af?

#0076af is a dark electric cyan, closest to Steel Blue (ΔE2000 6.2). It sits at 200° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 34% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0076af?

rgb(0, 118, 175) — 0 red, 118 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 0% / 46.3% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #0076af in HSL and HSV?

hsl(200, 100%, 34%) and hsv(200, 100%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0076af a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1605 and perceived brightness is 42%, so white text on it reaches 4.99:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0076af?

White. It scores 4.99:1 against #0076af, versus 4.21:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #0076af accessible on a white background?

#0076af on white scores 4.99:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #0076af?

#AF3900 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AF001F and #AF9000, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0076af?

For interface work: #F4F8FA as the surface, #C0DEED for borders, #4B819B for secondary text, #AF0D00 as an accent and #005680 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #00AF90 and #001FAF stays calm, while #AF3900 is the loudest partner.

What is #0076af in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(100%, 33%, 0%, 31%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #0076af warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 96 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #00AFA8; nudged cooler, #0063AF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0076af?

The blue family — its 500 step is #3b82f6, ΔE2000 12 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0076af as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0076af in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0076af] or text-[#0076af], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #0076af with 50% opacity?

rgba(0, 118, 175, 0.5), or #0076af80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #80BBD7; over black, #003B58.

Is #0076af a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #006699, ΔE2000 5.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0076af mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #0076af?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #009FEC, #0076af 45%, #005680). For more colour, a short hue run to #0B0090 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0076af in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0076af at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.