HEX Color #8399D3 (Steelblue)

About #8399D3

When working with digital screens, the color #8399D3 is rendered by mixing light. Its closest recognized web color is Steelblue. In the RGB color space, it consists of 131 red, 153 green, and 211 blue.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 38% cyan and 27% magenta inks. The HSL representation is 223.5° hue, 47.6% saturation, and 67.1% lightness.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. Because it is a light color, it is generally recommended to use #000000 text. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#8399D3

RGB131, 153, 211

HSL223.5°, 47.6%, 67.1%

CMYK38%, 27%, 0%, 17%

HSV223.5°, 37.9%, 82.7%

LAB63.6, 6.6, -32.2

XYZ32.5, 32.3, 66.2

Decimal8624595

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#8399D3 #D2BC82

Analogous

#82C0D2 #9582D2

Triadic

#D28298 #98D282

Tetradic

#D282C0 #D2BC82 #82D294

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#8399D3

#90A4D7

#9EAFDC

#ACBBE1

#BAC6E6

#C7D1EB

#D5DDF0

#E3E8F5

#F1F3FA

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#8399D3

#7488BB

#6577A4

#57668C

#485575

#3A445D

#2B3346

#1D222E

#0E1117

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

2.81:1

Text on #FFFFFF

FAIL

7.46:1

Text on #000000

AAA

2.69:1

Text on #F8FAFC

FAIL

6.34:1

Text on #0F172A

AA

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #8399D3; }

.text-color { color: #8399D3; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #8399D3; }

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