Midnight Blue color (#191970)
Midnight Blue is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword midnightblue
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #191970, which is rgb(25, 25, 112) in RGB.
It is a very dark, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 240° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 29% in OKLCH. On a midnight blue background, white text gives the higher contrast at 14.84:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Midnight Blue color codes
| CSS name | midnightblue |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #191970 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #191970FF |
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| RGB | rgb(25, 25, 112) |
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| HSL | hsl(240, 64%, 27%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(240, 78%, 44%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(28.8% 0.1436 272.8) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(77.7%, 77.7%, 0%, 56.1%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for midnight blue used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of midnight blue
Tints mix midnight 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 midnight blue
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Midnight Blue with color blindness
Approximately how midnight blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using midnight blue in CSS
.element {
color: midnightblue;
background-color: #191970;
border-color: rgb(25 25 112 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(28.8% 0.1436 272.8);
}Similar named colors
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