#072C92

A dark, vivid blue closely aligning with Midnightblue.

About #072C92

When working with digital screens, the color #072C92 is rendered by mixing light. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Midnightblue. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 7, 44, and 146.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 95% cyan and 70% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 224.0 degrees, it sits comfortably in the blue spectrum.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. To prevent eye strain, #FFFFFF text pairs best with this hex code. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#072C92
RGB7, 44, 146
HSL224.0°, 90.8%, 30.0%
CMYK95%, 70%, 0%, 43%
HSV224.0°, 95.2%, 57.3%
LAB23.4, 31.1, -58.7
XYZ6.2, 3.9, 27.6
Decimal470162

Color Harmonies

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

Shades (Adding Black)

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

11.77:1
Text on #FFFFFF
AAA
1.78:1
Text on #000000
FAIL
11.25:1
Text on #F8FAFC
AAA
1.52:1
Text on #0F172A
FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #072C92; }
.text-color { color: #072C92; }
.border-color { border: 2px solid #072C92; }

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