#42a1b5 color: Aquatic Cool
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Aquatic Cool#42a1b5
- ≈ Steel blue
- Cyan
- Medium
- Vivid
- Cool
- cyan-600
- Black 29%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text3.00:1 · Below AALc -62
Black text7.00:1 · AALc 48
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About #42a1b5
#42a1b5 is a bright cyan color. In OKLCH it has 66.1% lightness, 0.093 chroma and a hue of 214°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 3:1 contrast and black text 7:1, so black text reads better.
The closest named color is Aquatic Cool (#41a0b4). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is cyan-600.