Deep Sky Blue color (#00BFFF)
Deep Sky Blue is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword deepskyblue
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #00BFFF, which is rgb(0, 191, 255) in RGB.
It is a light, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 195° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 76% in OKLCH. On a deep sky blue background, black text gives the higher contrast at 9.89:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Deep Sky Blue color codes
| CSS name | deepskyblue |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #00BFFF |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #00BFFFFF |
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| RGB | rgb(0, 191, 255) |
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| HSL | hsl(195, 100%, 50%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(195, 100%, 100%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(75.5% 0.1534 231.6) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(100%, 25.1%, 0%, 0%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for deep sky blue used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of deep sky blue
Tints mix deep sky blue with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with deep sky blue
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Deep Sky Blue with color blindness
Approximately how deep sky blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using deep sky blue in CSS
.element {
color: deepskyblue;
background-color: #00bfff;
border-color: rgb(0 191 255 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(75.5% 0.1534 231.6);
}Similar named colors
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