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#60A9CA

#60a9ca ≈ Moonstone Blue

  • azure
  • Lightness: medium
  • Saturation: moderate
  • Cool
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#60a9ca is a color from the azure family, with medium lightness and moderate saturation. In the RGB model it is made of 37.65% red, 66.27% green and 79.22% blue; printed in CMYK it uses 52.48% cyan, 16.34% magenta, 0% yellow and 20.78% black. Its hue angle is 198.68°, with 50% saturation and 58.43% lightness in HSL. It is a cool color, often associated with openness, freedom and calm. Designers typically use it for technology products, finance and banking and brand accents. Black text on this color reaches a contrast ratio of 8.03:1 (WCAG AAA). The closest named color is Moonstone Blue (#73a9c2), ΔE 2.86.

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Web safe#6699cc
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Relative luminance0.3513

Complementary

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #ca8160

Split complementary

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #ca6074
  3. #cab660

Analogous

  1. #60cab6
  2. #60a9ca
  3. #6074ca

Triadic

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #ca60a9
  3. #a9ca60

Tetradic

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #8160ca
  3. #ca8160
  4. #a9ca60

Square

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #b660ca
  3. #ca8160
  4. #74ca60

Monochromatic

  1. #24566d
  2. #3784a6
  3. #60a9ca
  4. #99c8dd
  5. #d3e7f0

Shades

#60a9ca mixed progressively with black.

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #5698b6
  3. #4d87a2
  4. #43768d
  5. #3a6579
  6. #305565
  7. #264451
  8. #1d333d
  9. #132228
  10. #0a1114
  11. #000000

Tints

#60a9ca mixed progressively with white.

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #70b2cf
  3. #80bad5
  4. #90c3da
  5. #a0cbdf
  6. #b0d4e5
  7. #bfddea
  8. #cfe5ef
  9. #dfeef4
  10. #eff6fa
  11. #ffffff

Tones

#60a9ca mixed progressively with gray.

  1. #60a9ca
  2. #63a5c3
  3. #66a1bb
  4. #6a9db4
  5. #6d99ac
  6. #7095a5
  7. #73909e
  8. #768c96
  9. #7a888f
  10. #7d8487
  11. #808080

Readable text 2.62:1 AA ✕ AA Large ✕ AAA ✕ AAA Large ✕
Readable text 8.03:1 AA ✓ AA Large ✓ AAA ✓ AAA Large ✓

Achromatopsia #a0a0a0 ≈ 0.003% of males
Achromatomaly #8ba4b2 ≈ 0.001% of males
Protanopia #98a7cc ≈ 1.01% of males
Deuteranopia #899bca ≈ 1.27% of males
Tritanopia #1bb2b4 ≈ 0.0001% of males
Protanomaly #85a8cb ≈ 1.08% of males
Deuteranomaly #7ba1ca ≈ 4.63% of males
Tritanomaly #41afbd ≈ 0.0002% of males
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Text color
.text-60a9ca {
  color: #60a9ca;
}
Background
.bg-60a9ca {
  background-color: #60a9ca;
  color: #000000;
}
Border
.border-60a9ca {
  border: 2px solid #60a9ca;
}
CSS variables
:root {
  --color-primary: #60a9ca;
  --color-primary-rgb: 96 169 202;
  --color-primary-hsl: 199 50% 58%;
}
Gradient
.gradient-60a9ca {
  background: linear-gradient(135deg, #60a9ca, #6074ca);
}
Colored shadow
.shadow-60a9ca {
  box-shadow: 0 8px 24px rgb(96 169 202 / 0.35);
}

#73a9c2 Moonstone Blue ΔE 2.86 #56a0d3 Carolina Blue ΔE 5.70 #71a6d2 Iceberg ΔE 5.86 #00bfff Deep Sky Blue ΔE 8.68 #0095b6 Bondi Blue ΔE 8.71 #73c2fb Maya Blue ΔE 9.34 #87ceeb Sky Blue ΔE 10.17 #9f5635 Inverted #a0a0a0 Grayscale 

Moonstone Blue
#60a9ca  rgb(96, 169, 202)  hsl(199, 50%, 58%)  Moonstone Blue
#ca8160  rgb(202, 129, 96)  hsl(19, 50%, 58%)  Raw Sienna
#ca60a9  rgb(202, 96, 169)  hsl(319, 50%, 58%)  Sky Magenta
#a9ca60  rgb(169, 202, 96)  hsl(79, 50%, 58%)  Yellow Green