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#02759c

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Glacier

RGB
2, 117, 156
HSL
195°, 98%, 31%
CMYK
99, 25, 0, 39
Luminance
0.1514

#02759c is a dark electric cyan, 195° on the wheel and 94/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.21:1). As text it scores 5.21:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Steel Blue, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(195 98% 31%)rgb(2 117 156)Base step 800AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #02759c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#02759c
Hue
195°
cyan
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
31%
dark
Brightness
61%
HSV value
Perceived
41%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1514
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
94/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.21:1
Closest name
Steel Blue
ΔE2000 8.9
Chroma
31.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.527
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 13.2
Web-safe
#006699
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue195° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness31%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #02759c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool94% 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%
Green84%
Blue16%

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

Every format

HEX#02759c
HEX (8-digit)#02759cff
RGBrgb(2, 117, 156)
RGBArgba(2, 117, 156, 1)
HSLhsl(195, 98%, 31%)
HSV / HSBhsv(195, 99%, 61%)
HWBhwb(195 1% 39%)
CMYKcmyk(99%, 25%, 0%, 39%)
LABlab(45.8 -13.0 -28.7)
LCHlch(45.8 31.5 245.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.527 0.105 230.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(12.38, 15.13, 33.71)
Decimal161180
Display P3color(display-p3 0.008 0.459 0.612)
Web-safe#006699

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #02759c;
background-color: #02759c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #02759c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#02759c] bg-[#02759c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #02759c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.008, green: 0.459, blue: 0.612)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.008, green: 0.459, blue: 0.612, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#02759C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF02759C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF02759C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(156, 117, 2)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(2, 117, 156)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(2, 117, 156)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 2, 117, 156)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0078f, 0.4588f, 0.6118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{2,117,156}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #02759c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #02759c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#025E7E, #D3E7EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #02759c 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: #F1FAFD;
  --brand-100: #E4F6FC;
  --brand-200: #C1ECFB;
  --brand-300: #90E2FE;
  --brand-400: #59D3FD;
  --brand-500: #21C5FC;
  --brand-600: #03B5F2;
  --brand-700: #0397C9;
  --brand-800: #02759c;
  --brand-900: #065874;
  --brand-950: #043749;
  --brand: #02759c;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E1ED;
  --brand-hover: #025B79;
  --brand-pressed: #014056;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142024;
    --brand-ink: #D3E7EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FAFD',
        100: '#E4F6FC',
        200: '#C1ECFB',
        300: '#90E2FE',
        400: '#59D3FD',
        500: '#21C5FC',
        600: '#03B5F2',
        700: '#0397C9',
        800: '#02759c',
        900: '#065874',
        950: '#043749',
        DEFAULT: '#02759c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FAFD,
  '100': #E4F6FC,
  '200': #C1ECFB,
  '300': #90E2FE,
  '400': #59D3FD,
  '500': #21C5FC,
  '600': #03B5F2,
  '700': #0397C9,
  '800': #02759c,
  '900': #065874,
  '950': #043749,
);
$brand-base: #02759c;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FAFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4F6FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1ECFB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#90E2FE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#59D3FD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#21C5FC", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#03B5F2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0397C9", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#02759c", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#065874", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#043749", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #02759c · 5.21:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.21:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.03:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #02759c as text scores 5.21:1 on white and 4.03:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6F8FF at 4.78:1.

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
#02759c · 5.21:1
AA on whitealready passes
#02759c
The quick fox
#025E7E · 7.23:1
AAA on white−6% L
#025E7E
The quick fox
#0280AB · 4.68:1
AA on black+3% L
#0280AB
The quick fox
#03A2D9 · 7.17:1
AAA on black+12% L
#03A2D9

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #02759C 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
#02759c on white: 5.21:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#02759c on black: 4.03:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #02759c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #02759c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.21:1AaAa
Slate 504.98:1AaAa
Slate 1004.76:1AaAa
Slate 2004.23:1AaAa
Slate 3003.51:1AaAa
Slate 4002.03:1AaAa
Slate 5001.10:1AaAa
Slate 6001.45:1AaAa
Slate 7001.99:1AaAa
Slate 8002.81:1AaAa
Slate 9003.42:1AaAa
Black4.03:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #61739E
deuteranopia · #4F679B
tritanopia · #008082

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. #02759c 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.

#F1FAFD
#E4F6FC
#C1ECFB
#90E2FE
#59D3FD
#21C5FC
#03B5F2
#0397C9
#02759c
#065874
#043749
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F1FAFDDarkest = 950 · #043749Text 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 0.026 230.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.042 230.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.063 230.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.082 230.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.097 230.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.105 230.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.105 230.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.099 230.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.088 230.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.074 230.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.058 230.5);
}

Colors that work with #02759c

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#F4F9FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E1ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B879B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9E0100
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#025E7E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6F8FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142024
Dark-mode background
Hover#025B79
One step down in lightness
Pressed#014056
Two steps down
Disabled#6D94A2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0085B3
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 #02759c

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
  • Weight69/100
  • 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#9C2902
Analogous left#029C76
Analogous right#02289C
Split-complement 1#9C0228
Split-complement 2#9C7602
Triadic 1#9C0275
Triadic 2#759C02
Tetradic#76029C
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°195°

#02759c sits at 195°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red0.8%
Green45.9%
Blue61.2%
R · 0–255
2
0x02
G · 0–255
117
0x75
B · 0–255
156
0x9c

CMYK percentages

Cyan98.7%
Magenta25.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)38.8%

Total ink coverage is 163%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#02759c text on a black background

contrast 4.03:1

Card sample

#02759c text on a white background

contrast 5.21:1

Card sample

#02759c on grey

4.76:1

#02759c on its own surface

4.91:1

#02759c on its dark surface

3.19:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #02759c;
Background color
Panel with #02759c background
background-color: #02759c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #02759c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(2, 117, 156, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(2, 117, 156, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #02759c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #02759c, #020E9C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #02759c, #1C029C);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #02759c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #02759c;
caret-color: #02759c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #02759c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6F8FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #02759c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#02759c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #02759c 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, 117, 156, 0.5)
rgb(2 117 156 / 50%)
#02759c80
hsl(195 98% 31% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #02759c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#02759c1a#E6F1F5
20%#02759c33#CCE3EB
40%#02759c66#9AC8D7
60%#02759c99#67ACC4
80%#02759ccc#3591B0

Gradients from #02759c

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, #03A2D9, #02759c 45%, #025E7E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #02759c, #02027E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #02759c, #9C2902);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #03B9F7 0%, #02759c 45%, #025E7E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F9FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #03CE8B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #0220BA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #025E7E 0%, transparent 65%), #02759c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #02759c

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.

#02759c 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 4.03:1 — lift it to #0280AB 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.

#02759c, answered

What color is #02759c?

#02759c is a dark electric cyan, closest to Steel Blue (ΔE2000 8.9). It sits at 195° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 31% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #02759c?

rgb(2, 117, 156) — 2 red, 117 green and 156 blue out of 255, or 0.8% / 45.9% / 61.2% by channel.

What is #02759c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(195, 98%, 31%) and hsv(195, 99%, 61%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #02759c a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1514 and perceived brightness is 41%, so white text on it reaches 5.21:1.

Should I use black or white text on #02759c?

White. It scores 5.21:1 against #02759c, versus 4.03:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #02759c accessible on a white background?

#02759c on white scores 5.21:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #02759c?

#9C2902 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9C0228 and #9C7602, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #02759c?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E1ED for borders, #4B879B for secondary text, #9E0100 as an accent and #025E7E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #029C76 and #02289C stays calm, while #9C2902 is the loudest partner.

What is #02759c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(99%, 25%, 0%, 39%). 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 #02759c warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 94 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #029C8B; nudged cooler, #005E9E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #02759c?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 13.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #02759c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #02759c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#02759c] or text-[#02759c], 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 #02759c with 50% opacity?

rgba(2, 117, 156, 0.5), or #02759c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #81BACE; over black, #013B4E.

Is #02759c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #006699, ΔE2000 6.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #02759c 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 #02759c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #03A2D9, #02759c 45%, #025E7E). For more colour, a short hue run to #02027E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #02759c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #02759c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.