#50A8B6
A medium, moderate cyan closely aligning with Cadetblue.
About #50A8B6
When working with digital screens, the color #50A8B6 is rendered by mixing light. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Cadetblue. Its digital footprint relies on 80 parts red, 168 parts green, and 182 parts blue light.
While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 56% cyan and 8% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 188.2 degrees, it sits comfortably in the cyan spectrum.
Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.