#42aed9 color: Highlighter Blue
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Highlighter Blue#42aed9
- ≈ Sky blue
- Sky blue
- Light
- Vivid
- Cool
- cyan-500
- Black 15%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text2.53:1 · Below AALc -54
Black text8.29:1 · AALc 55
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About #42aed9
#42aed9 is a bright light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 70.7% lightness, 0.115 chroma and a hue of 228°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 2.53:1 contrast and black text 8.29:1, so black text reads better.
The closest named color is Highlighter Blue (#3aafdc). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is cyan-500.