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#140362

a deep, electric blue · cool · closest name: Navy

Token name suggestion: Cellar Sapphire

RGB
20, 3, 98
HSL
251°, 94%, 20%
CMYK
80, 97, 0, 62
Luminance
0.0110

#140362 is a deep electric blue, 251° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (17.23:1). As text it scores 17.23:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Navy, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(251 94% 20%)rgb(20 3 98)Base step 900AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #140362 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#140362
Hue
251°
blue
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
20%
deep
Brightness
38%
HSV value
Perceived
14%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0110
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
17.23:1
Closest name
Navy
ΔE2000 4.7
Chroma
63.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.240
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 32.4
Web-safe
#000066
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue251° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness20%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #140362.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool77% 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
Red14%
Green6%
Blue80%

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

Every format

HEX#140362
HEX (8-digit)#140362ff
RGBrgb(20, 3, 98)
RGBArgba(20, 3, 98, 1)
HSLhsl(251, 94%, 20%)
HSV / HSBhsv(251, 97%, 38%)
HWBhwb(251 1% 62%)
CMYKcmyk(80%, 97%, 0%, 62%)
LABlab(9.8 38.1 -50.5)
LCHlch(9.8 63.3 307.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.240 0.146 274.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(2.52, 1.10, 11.63)
Decimal1311586
Display P3color(display-p3 0.078 0.012 0.384)
Web-safe#000066

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #140362;
background-color: #140362;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #140362;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#140362] bg-[#140362]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #140362;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.078, green: 0.012, blue: 0.384)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.078, green: 0.012, blue: 0.384, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#140362</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF140362)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF140362)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(98, 3, 20)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(20, 3, 98)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(20, 3, 98)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 20, 3, 98)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0784f, 0.0118f, 0.3843f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{20,3,98}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #140362 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #140362 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#19047C, #D8D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #140362 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: #F4F2FD;
  --brand-100: #E8E4FB;
  --brand-200: #CCC2FA;
  --brand-300: #A592FC;
  --brand-400: #785CFA;
  --brand-500: #4B25F8;
  --brand-600: #3007EE;
  --brand-700: #2806C6;
  --brand-800: #20059E;
  --brand-900: #140362;
  --brand-950: #110547;
  --brand: #140362;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F5F4FA;
  --brand-border: #C8C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #0D023F;
  --brand-pressed: #06011D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #171424;
    --brand-ink: #D8D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4F2FD',
        100: '#E8E4FB',
        200: '#CCC2FA',
        300: '#A592FC',
        400: '#785CFA',
        500: '#4B25F8',
        600: '#3007EE',
        700: '#2806C6',
        800: '#20059E',
        900: '#140362',
        950: '#110547',
        DEFAULT: '#140362',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4F2FD,
  '100': #E8E4FB,
  '200': #CCC2FA,
  '300': #A592FC,
  '400': #785CFA,
  '500': #4B25F8,
  '600': #3007EE,
  '700': #2806C6,
  '800': #20059E,
  '900': #140362,
  '950': #110547,
);
$brand-base: #140362;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4F2FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8E4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCC2FA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A592FC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#785CFA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4B25F8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3007EE", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2806C6", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#20059E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#140362", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#110547", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #140362 · 17.23:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 17.23:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.22:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #140362 as text scores 17.23:1 on white and 1.22:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #EBE6FE at 14.18:1.

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
#140362 · 17.23:1
AA on whitealready passes
#140362
The quick fox
#140362 · 17.23:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#140362
The quick fox
#775BFA · 4.66:1
AA on black+47% L
#775BFA
The quick fox
#9C87FB · 7.27:1
AAA on black+56% L
#9C87FB

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #140362 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
#140362 on white: 17.23:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#140362 on black: 1.22:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #140362 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #140362.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White17.23:1AaAa
Slate 5016.46:1AaAa
Slate 10015.72:1AaAa
Slate 20013.97:1AaAa
Slate 30011.60:1AaAa
Slate 4006.72:1AaAa
Slate 5003.62:1AaAa
Slate 6002.27:1AaAa
Slate 7001.66:1AaAa
Slate 8001.18:1AaAa
Slate 9001.04:1AaAa
Black1.22:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #001F64
deuteranopia · #001761
tritanopia · #002537

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. #140362 is pinned to step 900; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4F2FD
#E8E4FB
#CCC2FA
#A592FC
#785CFA
#4B25F8
#3007EE
#2806C6
#20059E
#140362
#110547
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #F4F2FDDarkest = 950 · #110547Text 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 0.037 274.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.058 274.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.088 274.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.114 274.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.135 274.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.146 274.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.146 274.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.137 274.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.123 274.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.102 274.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.080 274.6);
}

Colors that work with #140362

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#F5F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#C8C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#594B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#645D01
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#19047C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBE6FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#171424
Dark-mode background
Hover#0D023F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#06011D
Two steps down
Disabled#5C5382
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#160079
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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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
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GlobexActive

How to use #140362

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
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • 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
  • Weight80/100
  • 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#516203
Analogous left#032262
Analogous right#430362
Split-complement 1#624303
Split-complement 2#226203
Triadic 1#621403
Triadic 2#036214
Tetradic#620322
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°251°

#140362 sits at 251°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red7.8%
Green1.2%
Blue38.4%
R · 0–255
20
0x14
G · 0–255
3
0x03
B · 0–255
98
0x62

CMYK percentages

Cyan79.6%
Magenta96.9%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)61.6%

Total ink coverage is 238%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#140362 text on a black background

contrast 1.22:1

Card sample

#140362 text on a white background

contrast 17.23:1

Card sample

#140362 on grey

15.72:1

#140362 on its own surface

15.75:1

#140362 on its dark surface

1.05:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #140362;
Background color
Panel with #140362 background
background-color: #140362;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #140362;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(20, 3, 98, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(20, 3, 98, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #140362;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #140362, #530362);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #140362, #620359);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #140362;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #140362;
caret-color: #140362;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #140362;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBE6FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #140362;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#140362 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #140362 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(20, 3, 98, 0.5)
rgb(20 3 98 / 50%)
#14036280
hsl(251 94% 20% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #140362 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#1403621a#E8E6EF
20%#14036233#D0CDE0
40%#14036266#A19AC0
60%#14036299#7268A1
80%#140362cc#433581

Gradients from #140362

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, #20059D, #140362 45%, #19047C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #140362, #400244);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #140362, #516203);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #2606BB 0%, #140362 45%, #19047C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #043E93 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #620480 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #19047C 0%, transparent 65%), #140362;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #140362

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.

#140362 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

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.22:1 — lift it to #775BFA 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.

#140362, answered

What color is #140362?

#140362 is a deep electric blue, closest to Navy (ΔE2000 4.7). It sits at 251° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 20% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #140362?

rgb(20, 3, 98) — 20 red, 3 green and 98 blue out of 255, or 7.8% / 1.2% / 38.4% by channel.

What is #140362 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(251, 94%, 20%) and hsv(251, 97%, 38%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #140362 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0110 and perceived brightness is 14%, so white text on it reaches 17.23:1.

Should I use black or white text on #140362?

White. It scores 17.23:1 against #140362, versus 1.22:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #140362 accessible on a white background?

#140362 on white scores 17.23:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #140362?

#516203 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #624303 and #226203, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #140362?

For interface work: #F5F4FA as the surface, #C8C0ED for borders, #594B9B for secondary text, #645D01 as an accent and #19047C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #032262 and #430362 stays calm, while #516203 is the loudest partner.

What is #140362 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(80%, 97%, 0%, 62%). 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 #140362 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 77 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #370362; nudged cooler, #021463.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #140362?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 32.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #140362 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #140362 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#140362] or text-[#140362], 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 #140362 with 50% opacity?

rgba(20, 3, 98, 0.5), or #14036280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8A81B1; over black, #0A0231.

Is #140362 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #000066, ΔE2000 1.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #140362 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 #140362?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #20059D, #140362 45%, #19047C). For more colour, a short hue run to #400244 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #140362 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #140362 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.