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#19829d

a dark, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Steel Blue

Token name suggestion: Shadow Reef

RGB
25, 130, 157
HSL
192°, 73%, 36%
CMYK
84, 17, 0, 38
Luminance
0.1861

#19829d is a dark vivid cyan, 192° on the wheel and 93/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.72:1). As text it scores 4.45:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Steel Blue, nearest Tailwind family is slate.

hsl(192 73% 36%)rgb(25 130 157)Base step 800AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #19829d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#19829d
Hue
192°
cyan
Saturation
73%
vivid
Lightness
36%
dark
Brightness
62%
HSV value
Perceived
45%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1861
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
93/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
4.72:1
Closest name
Steel Blue
ΔE2000 10.6
Chroma
29.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.563
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
slate
500 · ΔE 14.9
Web-safe
#009999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue192° of 360°
Saturation73%
Lightness36%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #19829d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool93% 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%
Green86%
Blue13%

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

Every format

HEX#19829d
HEX (8-digit)#19829dff
RGBrgb(25, 130, 157)
RGBArgba(25, 130, 157, 1)
HSLhsl(192, 73%, 36%)
HSV / HSBhsv(192, 84%, 62%)
HWBhwb(192 10% 38%)
CMYKcmyk(84%, 17%, 0%, 38%)
LABlab(50.2 -18.5 -22.5)
LCHlch(50.2 29.1 230.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.563 0.097 220.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.47, 18.60, 34.72)
Decimal1671837
Display P3color(display-p3 0.098 0.510 0.616)
Web-safe#009999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #19829d;
background-color: #19829d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #19829d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#19829d] bg-[#19829d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #19829d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.098, green: 0.510, blue: 0.616)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.098, green: 0.510, blue: 0.616, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#19829D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF19829D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF19829D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(157, 130, 25)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(25, 130, 157)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(25, 130, 157)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 25, 130, 157)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0980f, 0.5098f, 0.6157f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{25,130,157}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #19829d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #19829d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#125B6E, #D3E9EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #19829d 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: #F3FAFC;
  --brand-100: #E7F5F8;
  --brand-200: #C9EAF3;
  --brand-300: #9EDFF0;
  --brand-400: #6ECFE8;
  --brand-500: #3DBFE0;
  --brand-600: #22AFD3;
  --brand-700: #1C92B0;
  --brand-800: #19829d;
  --brand-900: #145566;
  --brand-950: #0D3540;
  --brand: #19829d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E3ED;
  --brand-hover: #14687E;
  --brand-pressed: #0F4F5F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142124;
    --brand-ink: #D3E9EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FAFC',
        100: '#E7F5F8',
        200: '#C9EAF3',
        300: '#9EDFF0',
        400: '#6ECFE8',
        500: '#3DBFE0',
        600: '#22AFD3',
        700: '#1C92B0',
        800: '#19829d',
        900: '#145566',
        950: '#0D3540',
        DEFAULT: '#19829d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FAFC,
  '100': #E7F5F8,
  '200': #C9EAF3,
  '300': #9EDFF0,
  '400': #6ECFE8,
  '500': #3DBFE0,
  '600': #22AFD3,
  '700': #1C92B0,
  '800': #19829d,
  '900': #145566,
  '950': #0D3540,
);
$brand-base: #19829d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FAFC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F5F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C9EAF3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9EDFF0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6ECFE8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3DBFE0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#22AFD3", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1C92B0", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#19829d", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#145566", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0D3540", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #19829d · 4.72:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.45:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.72:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #19829d as text scores 4.45:1 on white and 4.72:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #125B6E at 1.72:1.

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
#187E99 · 4.68:1
AA on white−1% L
#187E99
The quick fox
#136175 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−9% L
#136175
The quick fox
#19829d · 4.72:1
AA on blackalready passes
#19829d
The quick fox
#1FA3C5 · 7.10:1
AAA on black+9% L
#1FA3C5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #19829D 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
#19829d on white: 4.45:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#19829d on black: 4.72:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #19829d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #19829d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.45:1AaAa
Slate 504.25:1AaAa
Slate 1004.06:1AaAa
Slate 2003.61:1AaAa
Slate 3003.00:1AaAa
Slate 4001.73:1AaAa
Slate 5001.07:1AaAa
Slate 6001.70:1AaAa
Slate 7002.33:1AaAa
Slate 8003.29:1AaAa
Slate 9004.01:1AaAa
Black4.72:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #727E9E
deuteranopia · #61729D
tritanopia · #008B8B

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. #19829d is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FAFC
#E7F5F8
#C9EAF3
#9EDFF0
#6ECFE8
#3DBFE0
#22AFD3
#1C92B0
#19829d
#145566
#0D3540
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F3FAFCDarkest = 950 · #0D3540Text step on white = 900
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 0.024 220.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.039 220.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.058 220.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.076 220.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.089 220.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.097 220.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.097 220.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.091 220.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.081 220.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.068 220.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.053 220.5);
}

Colors that work with #19829d

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#F4F9FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E3ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B8A9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#A1151C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#125B6E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9F8FB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142124
Dark-mode background
Hover#14687E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0F4F5F
Two steps down
Disabled#7BA1AB
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#1297B9
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 #19829d

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • 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
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #125B6E
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.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight64/100
  • 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#9D3419
Analogous left#199D76
Analogous right#19409D
Split-complement 1#9D1940
Split-complement 2#9D7619
Triadic 1#9D1982
Triadic 2#829D19
Tetradic#76199D
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°192°

#19829d sits at 192°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red9.8%
Green51.0%
Blue61.6%
R · 0–255
25
0x19
G · 0–255
130
0x82
B · 0–255
157
0x9d

CMYK percentages

Cyan84.1%
Magenta17.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)38.4%

Total ink coverage is 140%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#19829d text on a black background

contrast 4.72:1

Card sample

#19829d text on a white background

contrast 4.45:1

Card sample

#19829d on grey

4.06:1

#19829d on its own surface

4.19:1

#19829d on its dark surface

3.71:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #19829d;
Background color
Panel with #19829d background
background-color: #19829d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #19829d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(25, 130, 157, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(25, 130, 157, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #19829d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #19829d, #192A9D);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #19829d, #29199D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #19829d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #19829d;
caret-color: #19829d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #19829d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9F8FB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #19829d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#19829d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #19829d 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(25, 130, 157, 0.5)
rgb(25 130 157 / 50%)
#19829d80
hsl(192 73% 36% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #19829d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#19829d1a#E8F3F5
20%#19829d33#D1E6EB
40%#19829d66#A3CDD8
60%#19829d99#75B4C4
80%#19829dcc#479BB1

Gradients from #19829d

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, #21AED2, #19829d 45%, #125B6E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #19829d, #151A83);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #19829d, #9D3419);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #33BBDF 0%, #19829d 45%, #125B6E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F9FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #20C989 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #1D3EB7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #125B6E 0%, transparent 65%), #19829d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #19829d

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.

#19829d 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 4.72:1.

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.

#19829d, answered

What color is #19829d?

#19829d is a dark vivid cyan, closest to Steel Blue (ΔE2000 10.6). It sits at 192° on the hue wheel with 73% saturation and 36% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #19829d?

rgb(25, 130, 157) — 25 red, 130 green and 157 blue out of 255, or 9.8% / 51% / 61.6% by channel.

What is #19829d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(192, 73%, 36%) and hsv(192, 84%, 62%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #19829d a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1861 and perceived brightness is 45%, so black text on it reaches 4.72:1.

Should I use black or white text on #19829d?

Black. It scores 4.72:1 against #19829d, versus 4.45:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #19829d accessible on a white background?

#19829d on white scores 4.45:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #187E99 to reach 4.5:1, or #136175 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #19829d?

#9D3419 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9D1940 and #9D7619, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #19829d?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E3ED for borders, #4B8A9B for secondary text, #A1151C as an accent and #125B6E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #199D76 and #19409D stays calm, while #9D3419 is the loudest partner.

What is #19829d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(84%, 17%, 0%, 38%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #19829d warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 93 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #199D88; nudged cooler, #17699F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #19829d?

The slate family — its 500 step is #64748b, ΔE2000 14.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #19829d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #19829d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#19829d] or text-[#19829d], 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 #19829d with 50% opacity?

rgba(25, 130, 157, 0.5), or #19829d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8CC1CE; over black, #0D414F.

Is #19829d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #009999, ΔE2000 13.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #19829d 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 #19829d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #21AED2, #19829d 45%, #125B6E). For more colour, a short hue run to #151A83 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #19829d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #19829d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.