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#0835eb

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Cobalt

RGB
8, 53, 235
HSL
228°, 93%, 48%
CMYK
97, 77, 0, 8
Luminance
0.0860

#0835eb is a balanced electric blue, 228° on the wheel and 90/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.72:1). As text it scores 7.72:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue, nearest Tailwind family is indigo.

hsl(228 93% 48%)rgb(8 53 235)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0835eb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0835eb
Hue
228°
blue
Saturation
93%
electric
Lightness
48%
balanced
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
35%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0860
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
90/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
7.72:1
Closest name
Blue
ΔE2000 5.6
Chroma
108.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.465
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
indigo
500 · ΔE 14.6
Web-safe
#0033FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue228° of 360°
Saturation93%
Lightness48%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0835eb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool90% 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%
Green30%
Blue70%

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

Every format

HEX#0835eb
HEX (8-digit)#0835ebff
RGBrgb(8, 53, 235)
RGBArgba(8, 53, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(228, 93%, 48%)
HSV / HSBhsv(228, 97%, 92%)
HWBhwb(228 3% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 77%, 0%, 8%)
LABlab(35.2 57.5 -91.7)
LCHlch(35.2 108.3 302.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.465 0.267 264.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(16.36, 8.59, 79.38)
Decimal538091
Display P3color(display-p3 0.031 0.208 0.922)
Web-safe#0033FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0835eb;
background-color: #0835eb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0835eb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0835eb] bg-[#0835eb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0835eb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.031, green: 0.208, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.031, green: 0.208, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0835EB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0835EB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0835EB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 53, 8)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(8, 53, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(8, 53, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 8, 53, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0314f, 0.2078f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{8,53,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0835eb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0835eb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#041C7B, #D3D8EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0835eb 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: #F2F4FD;
  --brand-100: #E4E9FB;
  --brand-200: #C2CDF9;
  --brand-300: #93A7FB;
  --brand-400: #5C7BF9;
  --brand-500: #2650F8;
  --brand-600: #0835eb;
  --brand-700: #072DC5;
  --brand-800: #05249E;
  --brand-900: #091D72;
  --brand-950: #051247;
  --brand: #0835eb;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F6FA;
  --brand-border: #C0C9ED;
  --brand-hover: #072DC8;
  --brand-pressed: #0625A6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141724;
    --brand-ink: #D3D8EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2F4FD',
        100: '#E4E9FB',
        200: '#C2CDF9',
        300: '#93A7FB',
        400: '#5C7BF9',
        500: '#2650F8',
        600: '#0835eb',
        700: '#072DC5',
        800: '#05249E',
        900: '#091D72',
        950: '#051247',
        DEFAULT: '#0835eb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2F4FD,
  '100': #E4E9FB,
  '200': #C2CDF9,
  '300': #93A7FB,
  '400': #5C7BF9,
  '500': #2650F8,
  '600': #0835eb,
  '700': #072DC5,
  '800': #05249E,
  '900': #091D72,
  '950': #051247,
);
$brand-base: #0835eb;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2F4FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4E9FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2CDF9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#93A7FB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5C7BF9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2650F8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0835eb", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#072DC5", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#05249E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#091D72", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#051247", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #0835eb · 7.72:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.72:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.72:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #0835eb as text scores 7.72:1 on white and 2.72:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6EBFE at 6.50:1.

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
#0835eb · 7.72:1
AA on whitealready passes
#0835eb
The quick fox
#0835eb · 7.72:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#0835eb
The quick fox
#4266F9 · 4.50:1
AA on black+14% L
#4266F9
The quick fox
#7892FA · 7.29:1
AAA on black+25% L
#7892FA

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0835EB 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
#0835eb on white: 7.72:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0835eb on black: 2.72:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0835eb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0835eb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.72:1AaAa
Slate 507.38:1AaAa
Slate 1007.05:1AaAa
Slate 2006.26:1AaAa
Slate 3005.20:1AaAa
Slate 4003.01:1AaAa
Slate 5001.62:1AaAa
Slate 6001.02:1AaAa
Slate 7001.34:1AaAa
Slate 8001.89:1AaAa
Slate 9002.31:1AaAa
Black2.72:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #005EF0
deuteranopia · #0048E8
tritanopia · #006E90

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. #0835eb 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.

#F2F4FD
#E4E9FB
#C2CDF9
#93A7FB
#5C7BF9
#2650F8
#0835eb
#072DC5
#05249E
#091D72
#051247
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F2F4FDDarkest = 950 · #051247Text step on white = 500
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 0.067 264.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.107 264.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.160 264.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.208 264.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.246 264.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.267 264.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.267 264.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.251 264.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.225 264.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.187 264.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.147 264.5);
}

Colors that work with #0835eb

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#F4F6FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0C9ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B5B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#C97103
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#041C7B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6EBFE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141724
Dark-mode background
Hover#072DC8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0625A6
Two steps down
Disabled#A0A7C3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0839FF
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 #0835eb

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#EBBE08
Analogous left#08A6EB
Analogous right#4C08EB
Split-complement 1#EB4C08
Split-complement 2#A6EB08
Triadic 1#EB0835
Triadic 2#35EB08
Tetradic#EB08A6
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°228°

#0835eb sits at 228°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red3.1%
Green20.8%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
8
0x08
G · 0–255
53
0x35
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan96.6%
Magenta77.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 182%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0835eb text on a black background

contrast 2.72:1

Card sample

#0835eb text on a white background

contrast 7.72:1

Card sample

#0835eb on grey

7.05:1

#0835eb on its own surface

7.14:1

#0835eb on its dark surface

2.31:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0835eb;
Background color
Panel with #0835eb background
background-color: #0835eb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0835eb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(8, 53, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(8, 53, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0835eb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0835eb, #7208EB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0835eb, #AB08EB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0835eb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0835eb;
caret-color: #0835eb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0835eb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6EBFE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0835eb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0835eb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0835eb 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, 53, 235, 0.5)
rgb(8 53 235 / 50%)
#0835eb80
hsl(228 93% 48% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0835eb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0835eb1a#E6EBFD
20%#0835eb33#CED7FB
40%#0835eb66#9CAEF7
60%#0835eb99#6B86F3
80%#0835ebcc#395DEF

Gradients from #0835eb

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, #385EF8, #0835eb 45%, #041C7B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0835eb, #7407CD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0835eb, #EBBE08);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #5576F9 0%, #0835eb 45%, #041C7B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F6FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #2ECCF8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #6F1AF7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #041C7B 0%, transparent 65%), #0835eb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0835eb

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.

#0835eb 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 2.72:1 — lift it to #4266F9 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.

#0835eb, answered

What color is #0835eb?

#0835eb is a balanced electric blue, closest to Blue (ΔE2000 5.6). It sits at 228° on the hue wheel with 93% saturation and 48% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0835eb?

rgb(8, 53, 235) — 8 red, 53 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 3.1% / 20.8% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #0835eb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(228, 93%, 48%) and hsv(228, 97%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0835eb a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0860 and perceived brightness is 35%, so white text on it reaches 7.72:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0835eb?

White. It scores 7.72:1 against #0835eb, versus 2.72:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #0835eb accessible on a white background?

#0835eb on white scores 7.72:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #0835eb?

#EBBE08 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EB4C08 and #A6EB08, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0835eb?

For interface work: #F4F6FA as the surface, #C0C9ED for borders, #4B5B9B for secondary text, #C97103 as an accent and #041C7B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #08A6EB and #4C08EB stays calm, while #EBBE08 is the loudest partner.

What is #0835eb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 77%, 0%, 8%). 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 #0835eb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 90 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #2E08EB; nudged cooler, #0650ED.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0835eb?

The indigo family — its 500 step is #6366f1, ΔE2000 14.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0835eb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0835eb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0835eb] or text-[#0835eb], 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 #0835eb with 50% opacity?

rgba(8, 53, 235, 0.5), or #0835eb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #849AF5; over black, #041B76.

Is #0835eb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #0033FF, ΔE2000 2.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0835eb 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 #0835eb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #385EF8, #0835eb 45%, #041C7B). For more colour, a short hue run to #7407CD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0835eb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0835eb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.