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cyan · cool

#0dafff

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Teal

RGB
13, 175, 255
HSL
200°, 100%, 53%
CMYK
95, 31, 0, 0
Luminance
0.3797

#0dafff is a balanced electric cyan, 200° on the wheel and 96/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.59:1). As text it scores 2.44:1 on white — use #007DBA instead. Nearest name is Deep Sky Blue, nearest Tailwind family is sky.

hsl(200 100% 53%)rgb(13 175 255)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0dafff is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0dafff
Hue
200°
cyan
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
53%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
63%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3797
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
96/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
8.59:1
Closest name
Deep Sky Blue
ΔE2000 6.1
Chroma
50.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.719
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
sky
500 · ΔE 3.6
Web-safe
#0099FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue200° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness53%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0dafff.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool96% 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%
Green81%
Blue19%

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

Every format

HEX#0dafff
HEX (8-digit)#0dafffff
RGBrgb(13, 175, 255)
RGBArgba(13, 175, 255, 1)
HSLhsl(200, 100%, 53%)
HSV / HSBhsv(200, 95%, 100%)
HWBhwb(200 5% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(95%, 31%, 0%, 0%)
LABlab(68.0 -8.7 -49.7)
LCHlch(68.0 50.5 260.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.719 0.163 240.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(33.54, 37.96, 100.15)
Decimal897023
Display P3color(display-p3 0.051 0.686 1.000)
Web-safe#0099FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0dafff;
background-color: #0dafff;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0dafff;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0dafff] bg-[#0dafff]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0dafff;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.051, green: 0.686, blue: 1.000)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.051, green: 0.686, blue: 1.000, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0DAFFF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0DAFFF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0DAFFF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(255, 175, 13)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(13, 175, 255)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(13, 175, 255)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 13, 175, 255)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0510f, 0.6863f, 1.0000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{13,175,255}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0dafff 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0dafff 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#005580, #D3E5EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0dafff 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: #F1F9FE;
  --brand-100: #E3F4FC;
  --brand-200: #C0E8FC;
  --brand-300: #8FDAFF;
  --brand-400: #57C7FF;
  --brand-500: #0dafff;
  --brand-600: #00A4F5;
  --brand-700: #0089CC;
  --brand-800: #006DA3;
  --brand-900: #055076;
  --brand-950: #033249;
  --brand: #0dafff;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F8FA;
  --brand-border: #C0DEED;
  --brand-hover: #009BE8;
  --brand-pressed: #0084C4;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141F24;
    --brand-ink: #D3E5EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1F9FE',
        100: '#E3F4FC',
        200: '#C0E8FC',
        300: '#8FDAFF',
        400: '#57C7FF',
        500: '#0dafff',
        600: '#00A4F5',
        700: '#0089CC',
        800: '#006DA3',
        900: '#055076',
        950: '#033249',
        DEFAULT: '#0dafff',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1F9FE,
  '100': #E3F4FC,
  '200': #C0E8FC,
  '300': #8FDAFF,
  '400': #57C7FF,
  '500': #0dafff,
  '600': #00A4F5,
  '700': #0089CC,
  '800': #006DA3,
  '900': #055076,
  '950': #033249,
);
$brand-base: #0dafff;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1F9FE", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3F4FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C0E8FC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FDAFF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#57C7FF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#0dafff", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#00A4F5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0089CC", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#006DA3", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#055076", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#033249", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #0dafff · 8.59:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.44:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.59:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #0dafff as text scores 2.44:1 on white and 8.59:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #005580 at 3.29:1.

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
#007DBA · 4.52:1
AA on white−16% L
#007DBA
The quick fox
#005E8C · 7.05:1
AAA on white−25% L
#005E8C
The quick fox
#0dafff · 8.59:1
AA on blackalready passes
#0dafff
The quick fox
#0dafff · 8.59:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#0dafff

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #009BE8 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
#0dafff on white: 2.44:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0dafff on black: 8.59:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0dafff as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0dafff.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.44:1AaAa
Slate 502.34:1AaAa
Slate 1002.23:1AaAa
Slate 2001.98:1AaAa
Slate 3001.65:1AaAa
Slate 4001.05:1AaAa
Slate 5001.95:1AaAa
Slate 6003.10:1AaAa
Slate 7004.24:1AaAa
Slate 8005.99:1AaAa
Slate 9007.31:1AaAa
Black8.59:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #88B0FF
deuteranopia · #699DFE
tritanopia · #00C3CB

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. #0dafff is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1F9FE
#E3F4FC
#C0E8FC
#8FDAFF
#57C7FF
#0dafff
#00A4F5
#0089CC
#006DA3
#055076
#033249
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F1F9FEDarkest = 950 · #033249Text 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 0.041 240.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.065 240.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.098 240.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.127 240.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.150 240.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.163 240.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.163 240.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.153 240.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.137 240.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.114 240.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.090 240.1);
}

Colors that work with #0dafff

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#F4F8FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0DEED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B809B
Captions on the surface
Accent#FF200D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#005580
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E5F7FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141F24
Dark-mode background
Hover#009BE8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0084C4
Two steps down
Disabled#B0C3CC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#21B6FF
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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How to use #0dafff

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 #005580
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #009BE8

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
  • Weight48/100
  • 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#FF5D0D
Analogous left#0DFFD6
Analogous right#0D36FF
Split-complement 1#FF0D36
Split-complement 2#FFD60D
Triadic 1#FF0DAF
Triadic 2#AFFF0D
Tetradic#D60DFF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°200°

#0dafff sits at 200°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red5.1%
Green68.6%
Blue100.0%
R · 0–255
13
0x0d
G · 0–255
175
0xaf
B · 0–255
255
0xff

CMYK percentages

Cyan94.9%
Magenta31.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 126%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0dafff text on a black background

contrast 8.59:1

Card sample

#0dafff text on a white background

contrast 2.44:1

Card sample

#0dafff on grey

2.23:1

#0dafff on its own surface

2.29:1

#0dafff on its dark surface

6.87:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0dafff;
Background color
Panel with #0dafff background
background-color: #0dafff;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0dafff;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(13, 175, 255, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(13, 175, 255, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0dafff;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0dafff, #0D0EFF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0dafff, #490DFF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0dafff;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0dafff;
caret-color: #0dafff;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0dafff;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E5F7FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0dafff;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0dafff 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0dafff 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(13, 175, 255, 0.5)
rgb(13 175 255 / 50%)
#0dafff80
hsl(200 100% 53% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0dafff 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0dafff1a#E7F7FF
20%#0dafff33#CFEFFF
40%#0dafff66#9EDFFF
60%#0dafff99#6ECFFF
80%#0dafffcc#3DBFFF

Gradients from #0dafff

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, #4AC3FF, #0dafff 45%, #005580);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0dafff, #1300ED);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0dafff, #FF5D0D);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #69CDFF 0%, #0dafff 45%, #005580 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F8FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #40FFCF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #2B3EFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #005580 0%, transparent 65%), #0dafff;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0dafff

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.

#0dafff 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 8.59:1.

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.

#0dafff, answered

What color is #0dafff?

#0dafff is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Deep Sky Blue (ΔE2000 6.1). It sits at 200° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 53% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0dafff?

rgb(13, 175, 255) — 13 red, 175 green and 255 blue out of 255, or 5.1% / 68.6% / 100% by channel.

What is #0dafff in HSL and HSV?

hsl(200, 100%, 53%) and hsv(200, 95%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0dafff a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3797 and perceived brightness is 63%, so black text on it reaches 8.59:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0dafff?

Black. It scores 8.59:1 against #0dafff, versus 2.44:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #0dafff accessible on a white background?

#0dafff on white scores 2.44:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #007DBA to reach 4.5:1, or #005E8C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #0dafff?

#FF5D0D sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FF0D36 and #FFD60D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0dafff?

For interface work: #F4F8FA as the surface, #C0DEED for borders, #4B809B for secondary text, #FF200D as an accent and #005580 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0DFFD6 and #0D36FF stays calm, while #FF5D0D is the loudest partner.

What is #0dafff in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(95%, 31%, 0%, 0%). 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 #0dafff warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 96 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #0DFFF6; nudged cooler, #008DF2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0dafff?

The sky family — its 500 step is #0ea5e9, ΔE2000 3.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0dafff as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0dafff in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0dafff] or text-[#0dafff], 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 #0dafff with 50% opacity?

rgba(13, 175, 255, 0.5), or #0dafff80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #86D7FF; over black, #075880.

Is #0dafff a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #0099FF, ΔE2000 7.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0dafff 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 #0dafff?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #4AC3FF, #0dafff 45%, #005580). For more colour, a short hue run to #1300ED keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0dafff in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0dafff at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.