Blue color

Royal Blue #4169E1

#4169E1 · rgb(65, 105, 225)

Royal Blue is the color #4169E1. In RGB it is rgb(65, 105, 225) — 25% red, 41% green and 88% blue. Its CMYK breakdown is 71% cyan, 53% magenta, 0% yellow and 12% black, and in HSL it sits at 225° hue, 73% saturation and 57% lightness. Royal Blue is one of the 140 standard CSS / HTML color names, so color: royal-blue works in CSS. The closest web-safe color is #3366CC.

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Royal Blue color codes

Hex#4169E1
RGBrgb(65, 105, 225)
RGB %25%, 41%, 88%
HSLhsl(225, 73%, 57%)
HSV / HSBhsv(225, 71%, 88%)
CMYKcmyk(71%, 53%, 0%, 12%)
OKLCHoklch(56% 0.188 266)
Closest web-safe#3366CC

Contrast

Contrast ratio of Royal Blue against white and black text (WCAG 2.1 needs 4.5:1 for body text).

White text — 4.85:1 Black text — 4.33:1

Shades, tints & tones

Shades — toward black
Tints — toward white
Tones — toward gray

Color harmonies

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