#556b8a color: Aurora Borealis
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Aurora Borealis#556b8a
- ≈ Cerulean
- Blue
- Medium
- Muted
- Dusty
- Cool
- slate-500
- Black 46%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text5.45:1 · AALc -82
Black text3.86:1 · Below AALc 27
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About #556b8a
#556b8a is a dusty blue color. In OKLCH it has 52.3% lightness, 0.056 chroma and a hue of 257°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 5.45:1 contrast and black text 3.86:1, so white text reads better.
The closest named color is Aurora Borealis (#556b87). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is slate-500.