#497aee color: Blue Öyster Cult
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Blue Öyster Cult#497aee
- ≈ Azure
- Blue
- Medium
- Vivid
- Cool
- blue-500
- Black 7%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text3.96:1 · Below AALc -72
Black text5.30:1 · AALc 37
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About #497aee
#497aee is a bright blue color. In OKLCH it has 60.7% lightness, 0.183 chroma and a hue of 264°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 3.96:1 contrast and black text 5.3:1, so white text reads better.
The closest named color is Blue Öyster Cult (#5577ee). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is blue-500.