#42aed5 color: Highlighter Blue
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Highlighter Blue#42aed5
- ≈ Sky blue
- Sky blue
- Light
- Vivid
- Cool
- cyan-500
- Black 16%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text2.55:1 · Below AALc -55
Black text8.25:1 · AALc 54
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About #42aed5
#42aed5 is a bright light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 70.5% lightness, 0.112 chroma and a hue of 226°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 2.55:1 contrast and black text 8.25:1, so black text reads better.
The closest named color is Highlighter Blue (#3aafdc). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is cyan-500.