#40a4bb color: Gulf Waters
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Gulf Waters#40a4bb
- ≈ Steel blue
- Cyan
- Medium
- Vivid
- Cool
- cyan-500
- Black 27%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text2.90:1 · Below AALc -60
Black text7.25:1 · AALc 49
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About #40a4bb
#40a4bb is a bright cyan color. In OKLCH it has 67% lightness, 0.097 chroma and a hue of 216°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 2.9:1 contrast and black text 7.25:1, so black text reads better.
The closest named color is Gulf Waters (#2da6bf). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is cyan-500.