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#62a2db

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Denim

RGB
98, 162, 219
HSL
208°, 63%, 62%
CMYK
55, 26, 0, 14
Luminance
0.3355

#62a2db is a balanced vivid blue, 208° on the wheel and 99/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.71:1). As text it scores 2.72:1 on white — use #2C7AC0 instead. Nearest name is Cornflower Blue, nearest Tailwind family is sky.

hsl(208 63% 62%)rgb(98 162 219)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #62a2db is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#62a2db
Hue
208°
blue
Saturation
63%
vivid
Lightness
62%
balanced
Brightness
86%
HSV value
Perceived
60%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3355
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
99/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
7.71:1
Closest name
Cornflower Blue
ΔE2000 5.9
Chroma
35.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.693
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
sky
500 · ΔE 6
Web-safe
#6699CC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue208° of 360°
Saturation63%
Lightness62%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #62a2db.

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
Red8%
Green77%
Blue15%

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

Every format

HEX#62a2db
HEX (8-digit)#62a2dbff
RGBrgb(98, 162, 219)
RGBArgba(98, 162, 219, 1)
HSLhsl(208, 63%, 62%)
HSV / HSBhsv(208, 55%, 86%)
HWBhwb(208 38% 14%)
CMYKcmyk(55%, 26%, 0%, 14%)
LABlab(64.6 -4.2 -35.2)
LCHlch(64.6 35.4 263.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.693 0.107 246.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.74, 33.55, 71.86)
Decimal6464219
Display P3color(display-p3 0.384 0.635 0.859)
Web-safe#6699CC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #62a2db;
background-color: #62a2db;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #62a2db;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#62a2db] bg-[#62a2db]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #62a2db;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.384, green: 0.635, blue: 0.859)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.384, green: 0.635, blue: 0.859, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#62A2DB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF62A2DB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF62A2DB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(219, 162, 98)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(98, 162, 219)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(98, 162, 219)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 98, 162, 219)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3843f, 0.6353f, 0.8588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{98,162,219}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #62a2db 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #62a2db 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#184268, #D3E1EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #62a2db 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: #F4F8FB;
  --brand-100: #E8F0F7;
  --brand-200: #CCDFF0;
  --brand-300: #A4C9EA;
  --brand-400: #62a2db;
  --brand-500: #4893D5;
  --brand-600: #2E7FC7;
  --brand-700: #266AA6;
  --brand-800: #1E5485;
  --brand-900: #1A3F61;
  --brand-950: #10283C;
  --brand: #62a2db;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F8FA;
  --brand-border: #C0D7ED;
  --brand-hover: #4591D4;
  --brand-pressed: #2E7FC8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141D24;
    --brand-ink: #D3E1EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4F8FB',
        100: '#E8F0F7',
        200: '#CCDFF0',
        300: '#A4C9EA',
        400: '#62a2db',
        500: '#4893D5',
        600: '#2E7FC7',
        700: '#266AA6',
        800: '#1E5485',
        900: '#1A3F61',
        950: '#10283C',
        DEFAULT: '#62a2db',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4F8FB,
  '100': #E8F0F7,
  '200': #CCDFF0,
  '300': #A4C9EA,
  '400': #62a2db,
  '500': #4893D5,
  '600': #2E7FC7,
  '700': #266AA6,
  '800': #1E5485,
  '900': #1A3F61,
  '950': #10283C,
);
$brand-base: #62a2db;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4F8FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F0F7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCDFF0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A4C9EA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#62a2db", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4893D5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2E7FC7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#266AA6", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1E5485", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1A3F61", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#10283C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #62a2db · 7.71:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.72:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.71:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #62a2db as text scores 2.72:1 on white and 7.71:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #184268 at 3.82:1.

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
#2C7AC0 · 4.51:1
AA on white−16% L
#2C7AC0
The quick fox
#215A8E · 7.20:1
AAA on white−28% L
#215A8E
The quick fox
#62a2db · 7.71:1
AA on blackalready passes
#62a2db
The quick fox
#62a2db · 7.71:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#62a2db

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #5298D7 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
#62a2db on white: 2.72:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#62a2db on black: 7.71:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #62a2db as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #62a2db.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.72:1AaAa
Slate 502.60:1AaAa
Slate 1002.49:1AaAa
Slate 2002.21:1AaAa
Slate 3001.83:1AaAa
Slate 4001.06:1AaAa
Slate 5001.75:1AaAa
Slate 6002.78:1AaAa
Slate 7003.80:1AaAa
Slate 8005.37:1AaAa
Slate 9006.55:1AaAa
Black7.71:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #8AA3DE
deuteranopia · #7A97DA
tritanopia · #00AFB6

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. #62a2db is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4F8FB
#E8F0F7
#CCDFF0
#A4C9EA
#62a2db
#4893D5
#2E7FC7
#266AA6
#1E5485
#1A3F61
#10283C
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F4F8FBDarkest = 950 · #10283CText step on white = 700
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 0.027 246.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.043 246.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.064 246.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.084 246.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.099 246.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.107 246.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.107 246.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.101 246.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.090 246.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.075 246.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.059 246.9);
}

Colors that work with #62a2db

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#C0D7ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B759B
Captions on the surface
Accent#AA4122
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#184268
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAF3FA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141D24
Dark-mode background
Hover#4591D4
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2E7FC8
Two steps down
Disabled#CED7E0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#6AACE7
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 #62a2db

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
  • 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 #184268
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #5298D7

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
  • Weight38/100
  • 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#DB9B62
Analogous left#62DBD8
Analogous right#6266DB
Split-complement 1#DB6266
Split-complement 2#DBD862
Triadic 1#DB62A2
Triadic 2#A2DB62
Tetradic#D862DB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°208°

#62a2db sits at 208°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red38.4%
Green63.5%
Blue85.9%
R · 0–255
98
0x62
G · 0–255
162
0xa2
B · 0–255
219
0xdb

CMYK percentages

Cyan55.3%
Magenta26.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)14.1%

Total ink coverage is 95%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#62a2db text on a black background

contrast 7.71:1

Card sample

#62a2db text on a white background

contrast 2.72:1

Card sample

#62a2db on grey

2.49:1

#62a2db on its own surface

2.55:1

#62a2db on its dark surface

6.26:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #62a2db;
Background color
Panel with #62a2db background
background-color: #62a2db;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #62a2db;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(98, 162, 219, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(98, 162, 219, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #62a2db;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #62a2db, #7362DB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #62a2db, #9162DB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #62a2db;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #62a2db;
caret-color: #62a2db;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #62a2db;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAF3FA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #62a2db;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#62a2db 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #62a2db 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(98, 162, 219, 0.5)
rgb(98 162 219 / 50%)
#62a2db80
hsl(208 63% 62% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #62a2db 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#62a2db1a#EFF6FB
20%#62a2db33#E0ECF8
40%#62a2db66#C0DAF1
60%#62a2db99#A1C7E9
80%#62a2dbcc#81B5E2

Gradients from #62a2db

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, #94C0E6, #62a2db 45%, #184268);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #62a2db, #6849D5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #62a2db, #DB9B62);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #ADCEEC 0%, #62a2db 45%, #184268 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%, #8CE5DB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #817BE1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #184268 0%, transparent 65%), #62a2db;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #62a2db

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.

#62a2db 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 7.71:1.

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.

#62a2db, answered

What color is #62a2db?

#62a2db is a balanced vivid blue, closest to Cornflower Blue (ΔE2000 5.9). It sits at 208° on the hue wheel with 63% saturation and 62% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #62a2db?

rgb(98, 162, 219) — 98 red, 162 green and 219 blue out of 255, or 38.4% / 63.5% / 85.9% by channel.

What is #62a2db in HSL and HSV?

hsl(208, 63%, 62%) and hsv(208, 55%, 86%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #62a2db a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3355 and perceived brightness is 60%, so black text on it reaches 7.71:1.

Should I use black or white text on #62a2db?

Black. It scores 7.71:1 against #62a2db, versus 2.72:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #62a2db accessible on a white background?

#62a2db on white scores 2.72:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2C7AC0 to reach 4.5:1, or #215A8E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #62a2db?

#DB9B62 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DB6266 and #DBD862, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #62a2db?

For interface work: #F4F8FA as the surface, #C0D7ED for borders, #4B759B for secondary text, #AA4122 as an accent and #184268 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #62DBD8 and #6266DB stays calm, while #DB9B62 is the loudest partner.

What is #62a2db in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(55%, 26%, 0%, 14%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #62a2db 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 #6276DB; nudged cooler, #4B91D8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #62a2db?

The sky family — its 500 step is #0ea5e9, ΔE2000 6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #62a2db as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #62a2db in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#62a2db] or text-[#62a2db], 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 #62a2db with 50% opacity?

rgba(98, 162, 219, 0.5), or #62a2db80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B1D1ED; over black, #31516E.

Is #62a2db a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #6699CC, ΔE2000 3.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #62a2db 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 #62a2db?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #94C0E6, #62a2db 45%, #184268). For more colour, a short hue run to #6849D5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #62a2db in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #62a2db at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.