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#688ac2 color: Provence

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217°
100%

OKLCH

63.1%
0.093
260°
  • ≈ Steel blue
  • Blue
  • Medium
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • cyan-600
  • Black 24%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text3.50:1 · Below AALc -68
Black text6.00:1 · AALc 42

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About #688ac2

#688ac2 is a soft blue color. In OKLCH it has 63.1% lightness, 0.093 chroma and a hue of 260°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 3.5:1 contrast and black text 6:1, so white text reads better.

The closest named color is Provence (#658dc6). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is cyan-600.

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Lighter: #688ac2 mixed with white

  1. 688ac2
  2. 7695c8
  3. 85a1cf
  4. 94add5
  5. a2b8db
  6. b1c4e2
  7. c1cfe8
  8. d0dbee
  9. dfe7f3
  10. eff3f9

Darker: #688ac2 mixed with black

  1. 688ac2
  2. 5977a8
  3. 4b658f
  4. 3e5377
  5. 304260
  6. 243249
  7. 182234
  8. 0c1420
  9. 04070e
  10. 000102

Calmer: #688ac2 with less saturation

  1. 688ac2
  2. 6c8abd
  3. 6f8ab7
  4. 728ab1
  5. 768aac
  6. 798aa6
  7. 7c8aa1
  8. 808a9b
  9. 838a95
  10. 868a8f