#42a3bb color: Aquatic Cool
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Aquatic Cool#42a3bb
- ≈ Steel blue
- Sky blue
- Medium
- Vivid
- Cool
- cyan-500
- Black 27%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text2.92:1 · Below AALc -61
Black text7.19:1 · AALc 49
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About #42a3bb
#42a3bb is a bright sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 66.8% lightness, 0.096 chroma and a hue of 217°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 2.92:1 contrast and black text 7.19:1, so black text reads better.
The closest named color is Aquatic Cool (#41a0b4). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is cyan-500.