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#596cb0 color: Loch Ness

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227°
100%

OKLCH

54.7%
0.109
271°
  • ≈ Steel blue
  • Indigo
  • Medium
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • slate-500
  • Black 31%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text5.00:1 · AALc -80
Black text4.20:1 · Below AALc 30

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About #596cb0

#596cb0 is a soft indigo color. In OKLCH it has 54.7% lightness, 0.109 chroma and a hue of 271°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 5:1 contrast and black text 4.2:1, so white text reads better.

The closest named color is Loch Ness (#5f6db0). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is slate-500.

More medium indigo colors

Lighter: #596cb0 mixed with white

  1. 596cb0
  2. 687ab8
  3. 7789c1
  4. 8797c9
  5. 97a6d1
  6. a8b4d9
  7. b9c3e1
  8. cad2e9
  9. dbe1f0
  10. edf0f8

Darker: #596cb0 mixed with black

  1. 596cb0
  2. 4c5d99
  3. 404e82
  4. 34406c
  5. 283256
  6. 1d2542
  7. 13192e
  8. 090d1c
  9. 03040b
  10. 000001

Calmer: #596cb0 with less saturation

  1. 596cb0
  2. 5b6daa
  3. 5e6ea4
  4. 606e9e
  5. 626f97
  6. 656f91
  7. 67708b
  8. 697084
  9. 6c707e
  10. 6e7077