#5F75BD

A medium, moderate blue closely aligning with Cornflowerblue.

About #5F75BD

When working with digital screens, the color #5F75BD is rendered by mixing light. Designers often compare it to the standard color Cornflowerblue. Its digital footprint relies on 95 parts red, 117 parts green, and 189 parts blue light.

If you are designing for print, the four-color process is what matters most. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 50% cyan and 38% magenta inks. This makes it a relatively light color when applied to physical surfaces.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. The calculated luminance score dictates that #000000 typography is the safest choice. You can view the detailed AAA and AA pass/fail metrics in the table below.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#5F75BD
RGB95, 117, 189
HSL226.0°, 41.6%, 55.7%
CMYK50%, 38%, 0%, 26%
HSV226.0°, 49.7%, 74.1%
LAB50.5, 12.1, -40.4
XYZ20.3, 18.8, 50.7
Decimal6256061

Color Harmonies

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

Shades (Adding Black)

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

4.41:1
Text on #FFFFFF
AA Large
4.77:1
Text on #000000
AA
4.21:1
Text on #F8FAFC
AA Large
4.05:1
Text on #0F172A
AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #5F75BD; }
.text-color { color: #5F75BD; }
.border-color { border: 2px solid #5F75BD; }

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