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#080bed

a balanced, electric blue · cool · closest name: Blue

Token name suggestion: Studio Sapphire

RGB
8, 11, 237
HSL
239°, 94%, 48%
CMYK
97, 95, 0, 7
Luminance
0.0641

#080bed is a balanced electric blue, 239° on the wheel and 84/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (9.21:1). As text it scores 9.21:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue, nearest Tailwind family is indigo.

hsl(239 94% 48%)rgb(8 11 237)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #080bed is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#080bed
Hue
239°
blue
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
48%
balanced
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
32%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0641
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
84/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
9.21:1
Closest name
Blue
ΔE2000 2
Chroma
124.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.433
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
indigo
500 · ΔE 19.5
Web-safe
#0000FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue239° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness48%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #080bed.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool84% 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
Red1%
Green4%
Blue95%

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

Every format

HEX#080bed
HEX (8-digit)#080bedff
RGBrgb(8, 11, 237)
RGBArgba(8, 11, 237, 1)
HSLhsl(239, 94%, 48%)
HSV / HSBhsv(239, 97%, 93%)
HWBhwb(239 3% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 95%, 0%, 7%)
LABlab(30.4 73.1 -100.8)
LCHlch(30.4 124.6 306.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.433 0.293 264.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(15.50, 6.40, 80.52)
Decimal527341
Display P3color(display-p3 0.031 0.043 0.929)
Web-safe#0000FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #080bed;
background-color: #080bed;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #080bed;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#080bed] bg-[#080bed]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #080bed;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.031, green: 0.043, blue: 0.929)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.031, green: 0.043, blue: 0.929, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#080BED</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF080BED)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF080BED)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(237, 11, 8)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(8, 11, 237)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(8, 11, 237)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 8, 11, 237)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0314f, 0.0431f, 0.9294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{8,11,237}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #080bed 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #080bed 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#04067B, #D3D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #080bed 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: #F2F2FD;
  --brand-100: #E4E4FB;
  --brand-200: #C2C3FA;
  --brand-300: #9294FB;
  --brand-400: #5C5EFA;
  --brand-500: #2629F8;
  --brand-600: #080bed;
  --brand-700: #0709C5;
  --brand-800: #05079E;
  --brand-900: #090A72;
  --brand-950: #050647;
  --brand: #080bed;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F4FA;
  --brand-border: #C0C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #0709CA;
  --brand-pressed: #0608A8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141424;
    --brand-ink: #D3D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2F2FD',
        100: '#E4E4FB',
        200: '#C2C3FA',
        300: '#9294FB',
        400: '#5C5EFA',
        500: '#2629F8',
        600: '#080bed',
        700: '#0709C5',
        800: '#05079E',
        900: '#090A72',
        950: '#050647',
        DEFAULT: '#080bed',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2F2FD,
  '100': #E4E4FB,
  '200': #C2C3FA,
  '300': #9294FB,
  '400': #5C5EFA,
  '500': #2629F8,
  '600': #080bed,
  '700': #0709C5,
  '800': #05079E,
  '900': #090A72,
  '950': #050647,
);
$brand-base: #080bed;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4E4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2C3FA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9294FB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5C5EFA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2629F8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#080bed", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0709C5", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#05079E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#090A72", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#050647", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #080bed · 9.21:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 9.21:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.28:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #080bed as text scores 9.21:1 on white and 2.28:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6E7FE at 7.55:1.

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
#080bed · 9.21:1
AA on whitealready passes
#080bed
The quick fox
#080bed · 9.21:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#080bed
The quick fox
#6163FA · 4.67:1
AA on black+20% L
#6163FA
The quick fox
#898AFB · 7.09:1
AAA on black+28% L
#898AFB

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #080BED 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
#080bed on white: 9.21:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#080bed on black: 2.28:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #080bed as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #080bed.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White9.21:1AaAa
Slate 508.80:1AaAa
Slate 1008.40:1AaAa
Slate 2007.47:1AaAa
Slate 3006.20:1AaAa
Slate 4003.59:1AaAa
Slate 5001.93:1AaAa
Slate 6001.21:1AaAa
Slate 7001.12:1AaAa
Slate 8001.59:1AaAa
Slate 9001.94:1AaAa
Black2.28:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #0053F2
deuteranopia · #003BEA
tritanopia · #00648B

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. #080bed 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.

#F2F2FD
#E4E4FB
#C2C3FA
#9294FB
#5C5EFA
#2629F8
#080bed
#0709C5
#05079E
#090A72
#050647
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F2F2FDDarkest = 950 · #050647Text step on white = 400
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 0.073 264.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.117 264.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.176 264.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.228 264.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.269 264.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.293 264.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.293 264.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.275 264.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.246 264.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.205 264.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.161 264.7);
}

Colors that work with #080bed

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#F4F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B4C9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CA9502
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#04067B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6E7FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141424
Dark-mode background
Hover#0709CA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0608A8
Two steps down
Disabled#A2A2C3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0A0DFF
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.

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How to use #080bed

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight52/100
  • 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#EDEA08
Analogous left#087DED
Analogous right#7708ED
Split-complement 1#ED7708
Split-complement 2#7DED08
Triadic 1#ED080B
Triadic 2#0BED08
Tetradic#ED087D
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°239°

#080bed sits at 239°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red3.1%
Green4.3%
Blue92.9%
R · 0–255
8
0x08
G · 0–255
11
0x0b
B · 0–255
237
0xed

CMYK percentages

Cyan96.6%
Magenta95.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)7.1%

Total ink coverage is 199%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#080bed text on a black background

contrast 2.28:1

Card sample

#080bed text on a white background

contrast 9.21:1

Card sample

#080bed on grey

8.40:1

#080bed on its own surface

8.40:1

#080bed on its dark surface

1.97:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #080bed;
Background color
Panel with #080bed background
background-color: #080bed;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #080bed;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(8, 11, 237, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(8, 11, 237, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #080bed;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #080bed, #9D08ED);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #080bed, #D708ED);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #080bed;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #080bed;
caret-color: #080bed;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #080bed;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6E7FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #080bed;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#080bed 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #080bed 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(8, 11, 237, 0.5)
rgb(8 11 237 / 50%)
#080bed80
hsl(239 94% 48% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #080bed 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#080bed1a#E6E7FD
20%#080bed33#CECEFB
40%#080bed66#9C9DF8
60%#080bed99#6B6DF4
80%#080bedcc#393CF1

Gradients from #080bed

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, #3A3CF8, #080bed 45%, #04067B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #080bed, #9A07CF);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #080bed, #EDEA08);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #5759F9 0%, #080bed 45%, #04067B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #30A7F8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #991CF7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #04067B 0%, transparent 65%), #080bed;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #080bed

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.

#080bed 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 2.28:1 — lift it to #6163FA 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.

#080bed, answered

What color is #080bed?

#080bed is a balanced electric blue, closest to Blue (ΔE2000 2). It sits at 239° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 48% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #080bed?

rgb(8, 11, 237) — 8 red, 11 green and 237 blue out of 255, or 3.1% / 4.3% / 92.9% by channel.

What is #080bed in HSL and HSV?

hsl(239, 94%, 48%) and hsv(239, 97%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #080bed a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0641 and perceived brightness is 32%, so white text on it reaches 9.21:1.

Should I use black or white text on #080bed?

White. It scores 9.21:1 against #080bed, versus 2.28:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #080bed accessible on a white background?

#080bed on white scores 9.21:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #080bed?

#EDEA08 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #ED7708 and #7DED08, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #080bed?

For interface work: #F4F4FA as the surface, #C0C0ED for borders, #4B4C9B for secondary text, #CA9502 as an accent and #04067B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #087DED and #7708ED stays calm, while #EDEA08 is the loudest partner.

What is #080bed in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 95%, 0%, 7%). 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 #080bed warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 84 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #5908ED; nudged cooler, #063AEF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #080bed?

The indigo family — its 500 step is #6366f1, ΔE2000 19.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #080bed as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #080bed in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#080bed] or text-[#080bed], 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 #080bed with 50% opacity?

rgba(8, 11, 237, 0.5), or #080bed80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8485F6; over black, #040677.

Is #080bed a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #0000FF, ΔE2000 2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #080bed 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 #080bed?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #3A3CF8, #080bed 45%, #04067B). For more colour, a short hue run to #9A07CF keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #080bed in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #080bed at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.