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#024397

a dark, electric blue · cool · closest name: Dark Slate Blue

Token name suggestion: Slate Sapphire

RGB
2, 67, 151
HSL
214°, 97%, 30%
CMYK
99, 56, 0, 41
Luminance
0.0626

#024397 is a dark electric blue, 214° on the wheel and 98/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (9.32:1). As text it scores 9.32:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Blue, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(214 97% 30%)rgb(2 67 151)Base step 800AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #024397 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#024397
Hue
214°
blue
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
30%
dark
Brightness
59%
HSV value
Perceived
28%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0626
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
98/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
9.32:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Blue
ΔE2000 9.9
Chroma
53.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.403
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 18.9
Web-safe
#003399
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue214° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness30%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #024397.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool98% 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%
Green64%
Blue36%

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

Every format

HEX#024397
HEX (8-digit)#024397ff
RGBrgb(2, 67, 151)
RGBArgba(2, 67, 151, 1)
HSLhsl(214, 97%, 30%)
HSV / HSBhsv(214, 99%, 59%)
HWBhwb(214 1% 41%)
CMYKcmyk(99%, 56%, 0%, 41%)
LABlab(30.1 17.0 -50.8)
LCHlch(30.1 53.6 288.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.403 0.150 258.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(7.62, 6.26, 30.08)
Decimal148375
Display P3color(display-p3 0.008 0.263 0.592)
Web-safe#003399

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #024397;
background-color: #024397;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #024397;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#024397] bg-[#024397]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #024397;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.008, green: 0.263, blue: 0.592)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.008, green: 0.263, blue: 0.592, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#024397</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF024397)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF024397)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(151, 67, 2)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(2, 67, 151)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(2, 67, 151)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 2, 67, 151)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0078f, 0.2627f, 0.5922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{2,67,151}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #024397 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #024397 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#02387E, #D3DFEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #024397 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: #F1F7FD;
  --brand-100: #E4EEFC;
  --brand-200: #C1DAFB;
  --brand-300: #90C0FE;
  --brand-400: #59A0FD;
  --brand-500: #2281FC;
  --brand-600: #036BF2;
  --brand-700: #0359C9;
  --brand-800: #024397;
  --brand-900: #063674;
  --brand-950: #042249;
  --brand: #024397;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F7FA;
  --brand-border: #C0D3ED;
  --brand-hover: #023374;
  --brand-pressed: #012451;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141B24;
    --brand-ink: #D3DFEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1F7FD',
        100: '#E4EEFC',
        200: '#C1DAFB',
        300: '#90C0FE',
        400: '#59A0FD',
        500: '#2281FC',
        600: '#036BF2',
        700: '#0359C9',
        800: '#024397',
        900: '#063674',
        950: '#042249',
        DEFAULT: '#024397',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1F7FD,
  '100': #E4EEFC,
  '200': #C1DAFB,
  '300': #90C0FE,
  '400': #59A0FD,
  '500': #2281FC,
  '600': #036BF2,
  '700': #0359C9,
  '800': #024397,
  '900': #063674,
  '950': #042249,
);
$brand-base: #024397;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1F7FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4EEFC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1DAFB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#90C0FE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#59A0FD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2281FC", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#036BF2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0359C9", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#024397", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#063674", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#042249", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #024397 · 9.32:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 9.32:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.25:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #024397 as text scores 9.32:1 on white and 2.25:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6F1FF at 8.17:1.

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
#024397 · 9.32:1
AA on whitealready passes
#024397
The quick fox
#024397 · 9.32:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#024397
The quick fox
#036EF7 · 4.58:1
AA on black+19% L
#036EF7
The quick fox
#4A98FD · 7.20:1
AAA on black+34% L
#4A98FD

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #024397 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
#024397 on white: 9.32:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#024397 on black: 2.25:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #024397 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #024397.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White9.32:1AaAa
Slate 508.91:1AaAa
Slate 1008.51:1AaAa
Slate 2007.56:1AaAa
Slate 3006.28:1AaAa
Slate 4003.64:1AaAa
Slate 5001.96:1AaAa
Slate 6001.23:1AaAa
Slate 7001.11:1AaAa
Slate 8001.57:1AaAa
Slate 9001.91:1AaAa
Black2.25:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #004D9A
deuteranopia · #004195
tritanopia · #005866

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. #024397 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.

#F1F7FD
#E4EEFC
#C1DAFB
#90C0FE
#59A0FD
#2281FC
#036BF2
#0359C9
#024397
#063674
#042249
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F1F7FDDarkest = 950 · #042249Text step on white = 600
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 0.037 258.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.060 258.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.090 258.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.117 258.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.138 258.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.150 258.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.150 258.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.141 258.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.126 258.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.105 258.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.083 258.5);
}

Colors that work with #024397

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#F4F7FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0D3ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B6E9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#993000
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#02387E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6F1FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141B24
Dark-mode background
Hover#023374
One step down in lightness
Pressed#012451
Two steps down
Disabled#6A81A0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#004CAD
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
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Data
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GlobexActive

How to use #024397

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
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • 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.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

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

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight70/100
  • 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#975602
Analogous left#028E97
Analogous right#0B0297
Split-complement 1#970B02
Split-complement 2#8E9702
Triadic 1#970243
Triadic 2#439702
Tetradic#97028E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°214°

#024397 sits at 214°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red0.8%
Green26.3%
Blue59.2%
R · 0–255
2
0x02
G · 0–255
67
0x43
B · 0–255
151
0x97

CMYK percentages

Cyan98.7%
Magenta55.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)40.8%

Total ink coverage is 195%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#024397 text on a black background

contrast 2.25:1

Card sample

#024397 text on a white background

contrast 9.32:1

Card sample

#024397 on grey

8.51:1

#024397 on its own surface

8.67:1

#024397 on its dark surface

1.86:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #024397;
Background color
Panel with #024397 background
background-color: #024397;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #024397;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(2, 67, 151, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(2, 67, 151, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #024397;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #024397, #240297);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #024397, #4A0297);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #024397;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #024397;
caret-color: #024397;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #024397;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6F1FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #024397;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#024397 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #024397 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(2, 67, 151, 0.5)
rgb(2 67 151 / 50%)
#02439780
hsl(214 97% 30% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #024397 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0243971a#E6ECF5
20%#02439733#CCD9EA
40%#02439766#9AB4D5
60%#02439799#678EC1
80%#024397cc#3569AC

Gradients from #024397

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, #035ED3, #024397 45%, #02387E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #024397, #270279);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #024397, #975602);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #036BF2 0%, #024397 45%, #02387E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F7FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #03C9C5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #1D02B5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #02387E 0%, transparent 65%), #024397;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #024397

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.

#024397 in the real world

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

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
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 2.25:1 — lift it to #036EF7 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.

#024397, answered

What color is #024397?

#024397 is a dark electric blue, closest to Dark Slate Blue (ΔE2000 9.9). It sits at 214° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 30% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #024397?

rgb(2, 67, 151) — 2 red, 67 green and 151 blue out of 255, or 0.8% / 26.3% / 59.2% by channel.

What is #024397 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(214, 97%, 30%) and hsv(214, 99%, 59%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #024397 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0626 and perceived brightness is 28%, so white text on it reaches 9.32:1.

Should I use black or white text on #024397?

White. It scores 9.32:1 against #024397, versus 2.25:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #024397 accessible on a white background?

#024397 on white scores 9.32:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #024397?

#975602 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #970B02 and #8E9702, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #024397?

For interface work: #F4F7FA as the surface, #C0D3ED for borders, #4B6E9B for secondary text, #993000 as an accent and #02387E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #028E97 and #0B0297 stays calm, while #975602 is the loudest partner.

What is #024397 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(99%, 56%, 0%, 41%). 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 #024397 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 98 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #020C97; nudged cooler, #003A7F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #024397?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 18.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #024397 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #024397 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#024397] or text-[#024397], 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 #024397 with 50% opacity?

rgba(2, 67, 151, 0.5), or #02439780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #81A1CB; over black, #01224C.

Is #024397 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #003399, ΔE2000 5.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #024397 mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #024397?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #035ED3, #024397 45%, #02387E). For more colour, a short hue run to #270279 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #024397 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #024397 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.