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#1069d1

a dark, electric blue · cool · closest name: Royal Blue

Token name suggestion: Shadow Cobalt

RGB
16, 105, 209
HSL
212°, 86%, 44%
CMYK
92, 50, 0, 18
Luminance
0.1482

#1069d1 is a dark electric blue, 212° on the wheel and 99/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.30:1). As text it scores 5.30:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Royal Blue, nearest Tailwind family is blue.

hsl(212 86% 44%)rgb(16 105 209)Base step 600AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #1069d1 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#1069d1
Hue
212°
blue
Saturation
86%
electric
Lightness
44%
dark
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
42%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1482
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
99/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.30:1
Closest name
Royal Blue
ΔE2000 5.4
Chroma
62.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.534
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
blue
500 · ΔE 10.3
Web-safe
#0066CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue212° of 360°
Saturation86%
Lightness44%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #1069d1.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool99% 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%
Green68%
Blue31%

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

Every format

HEX#1069d1
HEX (8-digit)#1069d1ff
RGBrgb(16, 105, 209)
RGBArgba(16, 105, 209, 1)
HSLhsl(212, 86%, 44%)
HSV / HSBhsv(212, 92%, 82%)
HWBhwb(212 6% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(92%, 50%, 0%, 18%)
LABlab(45.4 15.9 -60.2)
LCHlch(45.4 62.3 284.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.534 0.178 256.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(16.77, 14.81, 62.28)
Decimal1075665
Display P3color(display-p3 0.063 0.412 0.820)
Web-safe#0066CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #1069d1;
background-color: #1069d1;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #1069d1;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#1069d1] bg-[#1069d1]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #1069d1;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.063, green: 0.412, blue: 0.820)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.063, green: 0.412, blue: 0.820, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#1069D1</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF1069D1)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF1069D1)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(209, 105, 16)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(16, 105, 209)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(16, 105, 209)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 16, 105, 209)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0627f, 0.4118f, 0.8196f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{16,105,209}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #1069d1 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #1069d1 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#093C76, #D3DFEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #1069d1 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: #F2F7FD;
  --brand-100: #E5EFFA;
  --brand-200: #C5DCF7;
  --brand-300: #97C3F7;
  --brand-400: #63A5F3;
  --brand-500: #2F87EF;
  --brand-600: #1069d1;
  --brand-700: #0E5FBE;
  --brand-800: #0C4C98;
  --brand-900: #0D396E;
  --brand-950: #082444;
  --brand: #1069d1;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F7FA;
  --brand-border: #C0D4ED;
  --brand-hover: #0D58B0;
  --brand-pressed: #0B488F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141B24;
    --brand-ink: #D3DFEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2F7FD',
        100: '#E5EFFA',
        200: '#C5DCF7',
        300: '#97C3F7',
        400: '#63A5F3',
        500: '#2F87EF',
        600: '#1069d1',
        700: '#0E5FBE',
        800: '#0C4C98',
        900: '#0D396E',
        950: '#082444',
        DEFAULT: '#1069d1',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2F7FD,
  '100': #E5EFFA,
  '200': #C5DCF7,
  '300': #97C3F7,
  '400': #63A5F3,
  '500': #2F87EF,
  '600': #1069d1,
  '700': #0E5FBE,
  '800': #0C4C98,
  '900': #0D396E,
  '950': #082444,
);
$brand-base: #1069d1;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2F7FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5EFFA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C5DCF7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#97C3F7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#63A5F3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2F87EF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1069d1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0E5FBE", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0C4C98", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0D396E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#082444", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #1069d1 · 5.30:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.30:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 3.96:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #1069d1 as text scores 5.30:1 on white and 3.96:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E7F1FD at 4.64:1.

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
#1069d1 · 5.30:1
AA on whitealready passes
#1069d1
The quick fox
#0D56AB · 7.15:1
AAA on white−8% L
#0D56AB
The quick fox
#1173E4 · 4.60:1
AA on black+4% L
#1173E4
The quick fox
#4B98F1 · 7.06:1
AAA on black+18% L
#4B98F1

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #1069D1 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
#1069d1 on white: 5.30:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#1069d1 on black: 3.96:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #1069d1 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #1069d1.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.30:1AaAa
Slate 505.06:1AaAa
Slate 1004.84:1AaAa
Slate 2004.30:1AaAa
Slate 3003.57:1AaAa
Slate 4002.07:1AaAa
Slate 5001.11:1AaAa
Slate 6001.43:1AaAa
Slate 7001.95:1AaAa
Slate 8002.76:1AaAa
Slate 9003.37:1AaAa
Black3.96:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #2574D5
deuteranopia · #0064CF
tritanopia · #008393

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. #1069d1 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.

#F2F7FD
#E5EFFA
#C5DCF7
#97C3F7
#63A5F3
#2F87EF
#1069d1
#0E5FBE
#0C4C98
#0D396E
#082444
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F2F7FDDarkest = 950 · #082444Text step on white = 600
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 0.045 256.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.071 256.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.107 256.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.139 256.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.164 256.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.178 256.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.178 256.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.168 256.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.150 256.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.125 256.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.098 256.7);
}

Colors that work with #1069d1

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#F4F7FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0D4ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B709B
Captions on the surface
Accent#D5460B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#093C76
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7F1FD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141B24
Dark-mode background
Hover#0D58B0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0B488F
Two steps down
Disabled#96A7BC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0572F0
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #1069d1

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
  • 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 low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight56/100
  • 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#D17810
Analogous left#10CAD1
Analogous right#1710D1
Split-complement 1#D11710
Split-complement 2#CAD110
Triadic 1#D11069
Triadic 2#69D110
Tetradic#D110CA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°212°

#1069d1 sits at 212°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red6.3%
Green41.2%
Blue82.0%
R · 0–255
16
0x10
G · 0–255
105
0x69
B · 0–255
209
0xd1

CMYK percentages

Cyan92.3%
Magenta49.8%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)18.0%

Total ink coverage is 160%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#1069d1 text on a black background

contrast 3.96:1

Card sample

#1069d1 text on a white background

contrast 5.30:1

Card sample

#1069d1 on grey

4.84:1

#1069d1 on its own surface

4.93:1

#1069d1 on its dark surface

3.27:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #1069d1;
Background color
Panel with #1069d1 background
background-color: #1069d1;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #1069d1;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(16, 105, 209, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(16, 105, 209, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #1069d1;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1069d1, #3810D1);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #1069d1, #6810D1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #1069d1;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #1069d1;
caret-color: #1069d1;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #1069d1;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7F1FD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #1069d1;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#1069d1 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #1069d1 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(16, 105, 209, 0.5)
rgb(16 105 209 / 50%)
#1069d180
hsl(212 86% 44% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #1069d1 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#1069d11a#E7F0FA
20%#1069d133#CFE1F6
40%#1069d166#9FC3ED
60%#1069d199#70A5E3
80%#1069d1cc#4087DA

Gradients from #1069d1

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, #2F88EF, #1069d1 45%, #093C76);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #1069d1, #3E0EB5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #1069d1, #D17810);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #4B98F1 0%, #1069d1 45%, #093C76 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F7FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #26EEE5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #2D13ED 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #093C76 0%, transparent 65%), #1069d1;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #1069d1

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.

#1069d1 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 3.96:1 — lift it to #1173E4 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.

#1069d1, answered

What color is #1069d1?

#1069d1 is a dark electric blue, closest to Royal Blue (ΔE2000 5.4). It sits at 212° on the hue wheel with 86% saturation and 44% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #1069d1?

rgb(16, 105, 209) — 16 red, 105 green and 209 blue out of 255, or 6.3% / 41.2% / 82% by channel.

What is #1069d1 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(212, 86%, 44%) and hsv(212, 92%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #1069d1 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1482 and perceived brightness is 42%, so white text on it reaches 5.30:1.

Should I use black or white text on #1069d1?

White. It scores 5.30:1 against #1069d1, versus 3.96:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #1069d1 accessible on a white background?

#1069d1 on white scores 5.30:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #1069d1?

#D17810 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D11710 and #CAD110, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #1069d1?

For interface work: #F4F7FA as the surface, #C0D4ED for borders, #4B709B for secondary text, #D5460B as an accent and #093C76 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #10CAD1 and #1710D1 stays calm, while #D17810 is the loudest partner.

What is #1069d1 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(92%, 50%, 0%, 18%). 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 #1069d1 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 99 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #1022D1; nudged cooler, #0C5EBB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #1069d1?

The blue family — its 500 step is #3b82f6, ΔE2000 10.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #1069d1 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #1069d1 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#1069d1] or text-[#1069d1], 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 #1069d1 with 50% opacity?

rgba(16, 105, 209, 0.5), or #1069d180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #88B4E8; over black, #083569.

Is #1069d1 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #0066CC, ΔE2000 1.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #1069d1 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 #1069d1?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #2F88EF, #1069d1 45%, #093C76). For more colour, a short hue run to #3E0EB5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #1069d1 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #1069d1 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.