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#596dae color: Loch Ness

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226°
100%

OKLCH

54.8%
0.104
270°
  • ≈ Steel blue
  • Blue
  • Medium
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • slate-500
  • Black 32%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text4.97:1 · AALc -80
Black text4.22:1 · Below AALc 30

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About #596dae

#596dae is a soft blue color. In OKLCH it has 54.8% lightness, 0.104 chroma and a hue of 270°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 4.97:1 contrast and black text 4.22:1, so white text reads better.

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

More medium blue colors

Lighter: #596dae mixed with white

  1. 596dae
  2. 687bb7
  3. 7889bf
  4. 8798c7
  5. 98a6d0
  6. a8b5d8
  7. b9c3e0
  8. cad2e8
  9. dbe1f0
  10. edf0f7

Darker: #596dae mixed with black

  1. 596dae
  2. 4c5e97
  3. 404f80
  4. 34416a
  5. 283355
  6. 1d2641
  7. 13192e
  8. 090d1c
  9. 03040b
  10. 000101

Calmer: #596dae with less saturation

  1. 596dae
  2. 5b6ea8
  3. 5e6ea2
  4. 606f9c
  5. 627096
  6. 657090
  7. 67708a
  8. 6a7184
  9. 6c717e
  10. 6e7177