Medium Blue color (#0000CD)
Medium Blue is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword mediumblue
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #0000CD, which is rgb(0, 0, 205) in RGB.
It is a dark, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 240° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 38% in OKLCH. On a medium blue background, white text gives the higher contrast at 11.16:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Medium Blue color codes
| CSS name | mediumblue |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #0000CD |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #0000CDFF |
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| RGB | rgb(0, 0, 205) |
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| HSL | hsl(240, 100%, 40%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(240, 100%, 80%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(38.3% 0.2657 264.1) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(100%, 100%, 0%, 19.6%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for medium blue used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of medium blue
Tints mix medium 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 medium blue
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Medium Blue with color blindness
Approximately how medium blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using medium blue in CSS
.element {
color: mediumblue;
background-color: #0000cd;
border-color: rgb(0 0 205 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(38.3% 0.2657 264.1);
}Similar named colors
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