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#2140df

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Harbour

RGB
33, 64, 223
HSL
230°, 75%, 50%
CMYK
85, 71, 0, 13
Luminance
0.0932

#2140df is a balanced vivid blue, 230° on the wheel and 89/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.33:1). As text it scores 7.33:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue, nearest Tailwind family is indigo.

hsl(230 75% 50%)rgb(33 64 223)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #2140df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#2140df
Hue
230°
blue
Saturation
75%
vivid
Lightness
50%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
36%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0932
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
89/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
7.33:1
Closest name
Blue
ΔE2000 8.3
Chroma
95.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.473
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
indigo
500 · ΔE 12.8
Web-safe
#3333CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue230° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness50%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #2140df.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool89% 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
Red3%
Green39%
Blue57%

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

Every format

HEX#2140df
HEX (8-digit)#2140dfff
RGBrgb(33, 64, 223)
RGBArgba(33, 64, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(230, 75%, 50%)
HSV / HSBhsv(230, 85%, 87%)
HWBhwb(230 13% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(85%, 71%, 0%, 13%)
LABlab(36.6 48.1 -82.6)
LCHlch(36.6 95.6 300.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.473 0.240 266.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(15.78, 9.32, 70.76)
Decimal2179295
Display P3color(display-p3 0.129 0.251 0.875)
Web-safe#3333CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #2140df;
background-color: #2140df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #2140df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#2140df] bg-[#2140df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #2140df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.129, green: 0.251, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.129, green: 0.251, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#2140DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF2140DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF2140DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 64, 33)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(33, 64, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(33, 64, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 33, 64, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1294f, 0.2510f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{33,64,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #2140df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #2140df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#10206F, #D3D7EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #2140df 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: #F3F4FC;
  --brand-100: #E7EAF9;
  --brand-200: #C8CFF4;
  --brand-300: #9DABF1;
  --brand-400: #6C80EA;
  --brand-500: #3B56E3;
  --brand-600: #2140df;
  --brand-700: #1A33B2;
  --brand-800: #15298F;
  --brand-900: #132167;
  --brand-950: #0C1541;
  --brand: #2140df;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4F5FA;
  --brand-border: #C0C7ED;
  --brand-hover: #1C37C1;
  --brand-pressed: #172EA1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141624;
    --brand-ink: #D3D7EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3F4FC',
        100: '#E7EAF9',
        200: '#C8CFF4',
        300: '#9DABF1',
        400: '#6C80EA',
        500: '#3B56E3',
        600: '#2140df',
        700: '#1A33B2',
        800: '#15298F',
        900: '#132167',
        950: '#0C1541',
        DEFAULT: '#2140df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3F4FC,
  '100': #E7EAF9,
  '200': #C8CFF4,
  '300': #9DABF1,
  '400': #6C80EA,
  '500': #3B56E3,
  '600': #2140df,
  '700': #1A33B2,
  '800': #15298F,
  '900': #132167,
  '950': #0C1541,
);
$brand-base: #2140df;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3F4FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7EAF9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C8CFF4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9DABF1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6C80EA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3B56E3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2140df", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1A33B2", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#15298F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#132167", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0C1541", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #2140df · 7.33:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.33:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.86:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #2140df as text scores 7.33:1 on white and 2.86:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E9ECFC at 6.24:1.

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
#2140df · 7.33:1
AA on whitealready passes
#2140df
The quick fox
#2140df · 7.33:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#2140df
The quick fox
#526AE6 · 4.56:1
AA on black+11% L
#526AE6
The quick fox
#7F91EC · 7.16:1
AAA on black+21% L
#7F91EC

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2140DF 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
#2140df on white: 7.33:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#2140df on black: 2.86:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #2140df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #2140df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.33:1AaAa
Slate 507.01:1AaAa
Slate 1006.69:1AaAa
Slate 2005.95:1AaAa
Slate 3004.94:1AaAa
Slate 4002.86:1AaAa
Slate 5001.54:1AaAa
Slate 6001.03:1AaAa
Slate 7001.41:1AaAa
Slate 8001.99:1AaAa
Slate 9002.43:1AaAa
Black2.86:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #005FE4
deuteranopia · #004DDC
tritanopia · #006E8B

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. #2140df 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.

#F3F4FC
#E7EAF9
#C8CFF4
#9DABF1
#6C80EA
#3B56E3
#2140df
#1A33B2
#15298F
#132167
#0C1541
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F3F4FCDarkest = 950 · #0C1541Text 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 0.060 266.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.096 266.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.144 266.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.187 266.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.221 266.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.240 266.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.240 266.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.226 266.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.202 266.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.168 266.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.132 266.6);
}

Colors that work with #2140df

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#F4F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0C7ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B589B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B67416
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#10206F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9ECFC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141624
Dark-mode background
Hover#1C37C1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#172EA1
Two steps down
Disabled#A9AEC8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#2748ED
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 #2140df

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight50/100
  • 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#DFC021
Analogous left#219FDF
Analogous right#6121DF
Split-complement 1#DF6121
Split-complement 2#9FDF21
Triadic 1#DF2140
Triadic 2#40DF21
Tetradic#DF219F
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°230°

#2140df sits at 230°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red12.9%
Green25.1%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
33
0x21
G · 0–255
64
0x40
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan85.2%
Magenta71.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 169%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#2140df text on a black background

contrast 2.86:1

Card sample

#2140df text on a white background

contrast 7.33:1

Card sample

#2140df on grey

6.69:1

#2140df on its own surface

6.74:1

#2140df on its dark surface

2.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #2140df;
Background color
Panel with #2140df background
background-color: #2140df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #2140df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(33, 64, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(33, 64, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #2140df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2140df, #8121DF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2140df, #B021DF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #2140df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #2140df;
caret-color: #2140df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #2140df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9ECFC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #2140df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#2140df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #2140df 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(33, 64, 223, 0.5)
rgb(33 64 223 / 50%)
#2140df80
hsl(230 75% 50% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #2140df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#2140df1a#E9ECFC
20%#2140df33#D3D9F9
40%#2140df66#A6B3F2
60%#2140df99#7A8CEC
80%#2140dfcc#4D66E5

Gradients from #2140df

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, #576EE7, #2140df 45%, #10206F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #2140df, #7F1CC5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2140df, #DFC021);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #7185EB 0%, #2140df 45%, #10206F 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #4EBFE5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #823CE3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #10206F 0%, transparent 65%), #2140df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #2140df

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.

#2140df 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

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

Too dim on dark surfaces at 2.86:1 — lift it to #526AE6 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.

#2140df, answered

What color is #2140df?

#2140df is a balanced vivid blue, closest to Blue (ΔE2000 8.3). It sits at 230° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 50% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #2140df?

rgb(33, 64, 223) — 33 red, 64 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 12.9% / 25.1% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #2140df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(230, 75%, 50%) and hsv(230, 85%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #2140df a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0932 and perceived brightness is 36%, so white text on it reaches 7.33:1.

Should I use black or white text on #2140df?

White. It scores 7.33:1 against #2140df, versus 2.86:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #2140df accessible on a white background?

#2140df on white scores 7.33:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #2140df?

#DFC021 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DF6121 and #9FDF21, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #2140df?

For interface work: #F4F5FA as the surface, #C0C7ED for borders, #4B589B for secondary text, #B67416 as an accent and #10206F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #219FDF and #6121DF stays calm, while #DFC021 is the loudest partner.

What is #2140df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(85%, 71%, 0%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #2140df warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 89 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #4821DF; nudged cooler, #1E5DE2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #2140df?

The indigo family — its 500 step is #6366f1, ΔE2000 12.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #2140df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #2140df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#2140df] or text-[#2140df], 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 #2140df with 50% opacity?

rgba(33, 64, 223, 0.5), or #2140df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #90A0EF; over black, #112070.

Is #2140df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #3333CC, ΔE2000 4.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #2140df 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 #2140df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #576EE7, #2140df 45%, #10206F). For more colour, a short hue run to #7F1CC5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #2140df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #2140df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.