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cyan · cool

#07ace6

a balanced, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Deep Sky Blue

Token name suggestion: Signal Lagoon

RGB
7, 172, 230
HSL
196°, 94%, 47%
CMYK
97, 25, 0, 10
Luminance
0.3526

#07ace6 is a balanced electric cyan, 196° on the wheel and 94/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.05:1). As text it scores 2.61:1 on white — use #057CA6 instead. Nearest name is Deep Sky Blue, nearest Tailwind family is sky.

hsl(196 94% 47%)rgb(7 172 230)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #07ace6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#07ace6
Hue
196°
cyan
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
47%
balanced
Brightness
90%
HSV value
Perceived
60%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3526
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
94/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
8.05:1
Closest name
Deep Sky Blue
ΔE2000 5.3
Chroma
42.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.699
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
sky
500 · ΔE 3.5
Web-safe
#0099FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue196° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness47%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #07ace6.

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#07ace6
HEX (8-digit)#07ace6ff
RGBrgb(7, 172, 230)
RGBArgba(7, 172, 230, 1)
HSLhsl(196, 94%, 47%)
HSV / HSBhsv(196, 97%, 90%)
HWBhwb(196 3% 10%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 25%, 0%, 10%)
LABlab(66.0 -16.2 -39.3)
LCHlch(66.0 42.5 247.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.699 0.141 231.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(29.12, 35.26, 80.12)
Decimal503014
Display P3color(display-p3 0.027 0.675 0.902)
Web-safe#0099FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #07ace6;
background-color: #07ace6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #07ace6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#07ace6] bg-[#07ace6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #07ace6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.027, green: 0.675, blue: 0.902)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.027, green: 0.675, blue: 0.902, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#07ACE6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF07ACE6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF07ACE6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(230, 172, 7)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(7, 172, 230)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(7, 172, 230)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 7, 172, 230)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0275f, 0.6745f, 0.9020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{7,172,230}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #07ace6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #07ace6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#045D7C, #D3E7EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #07ace6 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: #F2FAFD;
  --brand-100: #E4F5FB;
  --brand-200: #C2EBFA;
  --brand-300: #92E0FC;
  --brand-400: #5CD1FA;
  --brand-500: #25C1F8;
  --brand-600: #07ace6;
  --brand-700: #0694C6;
  --brand-800: #05769E;
  --brand-900: #085772;
  --brand-950: #053647;
  --brand: #07ace6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E1ED;
  --brand-hover: #0692C4;
  --brand-pressed: #0578A1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142024;
    --brand-ink: #D3E7EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FAFD',
        100: '#E4F5FB',
        200: '#C2EBFA',
        300: '#92E0FC',
        400: '#5CD1FA',
        500: '#25C1F8',
        600: '#07ace6',
        700: '#0694C6',
        800: '#05769E',
        900: '#085772',
        950: '#053647',
        DEFAULT: '#07ace6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FAFD,
  '100': #E4F5FB,
  '200': #C2EBFA,
  '300': #92E0FC,
  '400': #5CD1FA,
  '500': #25C1F8,
  '600': #07ace6,
  '700': #0694C6,
  '800': #05769E,
  '900': #085772,
  '950': #053647,
);
$brand-base: #07ace6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FAFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4F5FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2EBFA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92E0FC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CD1FA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#25C1F8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#07ace6", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0694C6", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#05769E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#085772", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#053647", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #07ace6 · 8.05:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.61:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.05:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #07ace6 as text scores 2.61:1 on white and 8.05:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #045D7C at 2.81:1.

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
#057CA6 · 4.73:1
AA on white−13% L
#057CA6
The quick fox
#045E7E · 7.22:1
AAA on white−21% L
#045E7E
The quick fox
#07ace6 · 8.05:1
AA on blackalready passes
#07ace6
The quick fox
#07ace6 · 8.05:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#07ace6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #069DD2 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
#07ace6 on white: 2.61:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#07ace6 on black: 8.05:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #07ace6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #07ace6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.61:1AaAa
Slate 502.49:1AaAa
Slate 1002.38:1AaAa
Slate 2002.12:1AaAa
Slate 3001.76:1AaAa
Slate 4001.02:1AaAa
Slate 5001.82:1AaAa
Slate 6002.91:1AaAa
Slate 7003.97:1AaAa
Slate 8005.61:1AaAa
Slate 9006.85:1AaAa
Black8.05:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #8EAAE9
deuteranopia · #7498E5
tritanopia · #00BCC0

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. #07ace6 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FAFD
#E4F5FB
#C2EBFA
#92E0FC
#5CD1FA
#25C1F8
#07ace6
#0694C6
#05769E
#085772
#053647
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F2FAFDDarkest = 950 · #053647Text 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 0.035 231.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.057 231.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.085 231.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.110 231.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.130 231.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.141 231.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.141 231.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.133 231.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.119 231.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.099 231.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.078 231.8);
}

Colors that work with #07ace6

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

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4F9FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E1ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B869B
Captions on the surface
Accent#EB0502
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#045D7C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6F8FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142024
Dark-mode background
Hover#0692C4
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0578A1
Two steps down
Disabled#9DB7C0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#03BDFF
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 #07ace6

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #045D7C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #069DD2

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight54/100
  • 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#E64107
Analogous left#07E6B1
Analogous right#073DE6
Split-complement 1#E6073D
Split-complement 2#E6B107
Triadic 1#E607AC
Triadic 2#ACE607
Tetradic#B107E6
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°196°

#07ace6 sits at 196°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red2.7%
Green67.5%
Blue90.2%
R · 0–255
7
0x07
G · 0–255
172
0xac
B · 0–255
230
0xe6

CMYK percentages

Cyan97.0%
Magenta25.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)9.8%

Total ink coverage is 132%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#07ace6 text on a black background

contrast 8.05:1

Card sample

#07ace6 text on a white background

contrast 2.61:1

Card sample

#07ace6 on grey

2.38:1

#07ace6 on its own surface

2.46:1

#07ace6 on its dark surface

6.38:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #07ace6;
Background color
Panel with #07ace6 background
background-color: #07ace6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #07ace6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(7, 172, 230, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(7, 172, 230, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #07ace6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #07ace6, #0717E6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #07ace6, #2E07E6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #07ace6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #07ace6;
caret-color: #07ace6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #07ace6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6F8FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #07ace6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#07ace6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #07ace6 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(7, 172, 230, 0.5)
rgb(7 172 230 / 50%)
#07ace680
hsl(196 94% 47% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #07ace6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#07ace61a#E6F7FD
20%#07ace633#CDEEFA
40%#07ace666#9CDEF5
60%#07ace699#6ACDF0
80%#07ace6cc#39BDEB

Gradients from #07ace6

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, #32C5F9, #07ace6 45%, #045D7C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #07ace6, #0806C8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #07ace6, #E64107);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #4FCDFA 0%, #07ace6 45%, #045D7C 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%, #28F8B5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #1438F8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #045D7C 0%, transparent 65%), #07ace6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #07ace6

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.

#07ace6 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 8.05:1.

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.

#07ace6, answered

What color is #07ace6?

#07ace6 is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Deep Sky Blue (ΔE2000 5.3). It sits at 196° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 47% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #07ace6?

rgb(7, 172, 230) — 7 red, 172 green and 230 blue out of 255, or 2.7% / 67.5% / 90.2% by channel.

What is #07ace6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(196, 94%, 47%) and hsv(196, 97%, 90%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #07ace6 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3526 and perceived brightness is 60%, so black text on it reaches 8.05:1.

Should I use black or white text on #07ace6?

Black. It scores 8.05:1 against #07ace6, versus 2.61:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #07ace6 accessible on a white background?

#07ace6 on white scores 2.61:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #057CA6 to reach 4.5:1, or #045E7E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #07ace6?

#E64107 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E6073D and #E6B107, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #07ace6?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E1ED for borders, #4B869B for secondary text, #EB0502 as an accent and #045D7C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #07E6B1 and #073DE6 stays calm, while #E64107 is the loudest partner.

What is #07ace6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 25%, 0%, 10%). 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 #07ace6 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 #07E6CE; nudged cooler, #0591E9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #07ace6?

The sky family — its 500 step is #0ea5e9, ΔE2000 3.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #07ace6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #07ace6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#07ace6] or text-[#07ace6], 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 #07ace6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(7, 172, 230, 0.5), or #07ace680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #83D6F3; over black, #045673.

Is #07ace6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #0099FF, ΔE2000 10.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #07ace6 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 #07ace6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #32C5F9, #07ace6 45%, #045D7C). For more colour, a short hue run to #0806C8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #07ace6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #07ace6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.