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Pictured: Brandeis blue, the closest color we have a photo of (#0070FF)
rgb(0, 102, 255)
#0066FF

Blue Ribbon #0066FF RGB Color Code

Web-safe color. Name from the community color list.

Blue Ribbon (#0066FF) is a very vivid, medium blue. In RGB it is made of 0% red, 40% green and 100% blue (R 0, G 102, B 255). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 216°, 100% saturation and 50% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.167, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 100% cyan, 60% magenta, 0% yellow and 0% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Blue Ribbon color codes

#0066FF in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #0066FF Valid CSS
RGB rgb(0, 102, 255) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(216, 100%, 50%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(216, 100%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(216 0% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(100%, 60%, 0%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(56.35% 0.2408 260.82) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(56.35% -0.0384 -0.2377) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(46.43% 24.02 -84.1) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(46.43% 87.46 285.94) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.1664 0.3936 0.964) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.228 0.1672 0.9664) Valid CSS
Decimal 26367 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1672. Nearest web-safe color: #0066FF.

Mix Blue Ribbon with other colors

See what #0066FF makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintBlue Ribbon and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightBlue Ribbon and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintBlue Ribbon and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalBlue Ribbon blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Blue Ribbon in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--blue-ribbon: #0066FF;
Sass variable$blue-ribbon: #0066FF;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-blue-ribbon: #0066FF; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'blue-ribbon': '#0066FF' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0, green: 0.4, blue: 1)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0, green: 0.4, blue: 1, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="blue_ribbon">#FF0066FF</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF0066FF)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #0066FF (4.83:1, AA). Here is how #0066FF does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.83:1 on white
APCA Lc 72
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.34:1 on black
APCA Lc -29
AA LargeTry #0C69FF

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Blue Ribbon

#0066FF next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#0066FF stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Blue Ribbon

The 100 billionth crayon

Blue Ribbon was a one-time Crayola color made to mark a big number. By 1996 the company had made 100 billion crayons. On February 6, 1996, Fred Rogers of the TV show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood came to the factory and helped mold that crayon.

Crayola made about a million Blue Ribbon crayons and put them in a limited 96 Big Box. Some carried foil labels that won prizes. The grand prize was the real 100 billionth crayon. Its winner sold it back to Crayola for a $100,000 bond, and it went into the company's Hall of Fame in Easton, Pennsylvania. Collectors describe the crayon as a periwinkle blue.

Three different blues

The code #0066FF on this page comes from Name That Color, a free list used by many web tools. It is not the crayon. The Wikipedia list of Crayola colors gives #0B10A2, a deep royal blue. Its main table puts that code next to the numbers 0, 102, 204, which make #0066CC. So even Wikipedia does not agree with itself here. Close to #0066FF are Brandeis blue and azure.

Blue Ribbon in a user interface

A sample app screen with #0066FF as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #0066FF as it is. On the dark theme, #0066FF is too hard to read as text (3.67:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #2E7AFF there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Blue Ribbon

These schemes turn the hue of #0066FF around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#0066FF#FF9900

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#00E6FFthis#0066FF#1900FF

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#0066FF#FF0066#66FF00

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#0066FF#FF1A00#E6FF00

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#0066FF#9900FF#FF9900#66FF00

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#0066FF#FF00E6#FF9900#00FF1A

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#002966#004AB9#0D6EFF#609FFF#B3D1FF

Gradients with Blue Ribbon

Four CSS gradients made from #0066FF. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #D3E3FF, #0066FF);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #0066FF, #001748);

Edit in the gradient generator

Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #00E6FF, #0066FF, #1900FF);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0066FF, #A362B7, #FF0066);

Edit in the gradient generator

Shades, tints and tones of Blue Ribbon

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Blue Ribbon sits at step 600. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F2F7FF
  2. 100
    E3EEFF
  3. 200
    C7DCFF
  4. 300
    9EC2FF
  5. 400
    6CA2FF
  6. 500
    357EFF
  7. 600
    0066FF
  8. 700
    004ABD
  9. 800
    003997
  10. 900
    002972
  11. 950
    021945

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #0066FF in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 5015 Sky blue#2874B2, rough match (ΔE 12.8)Tailwind CSSblue-600 #2563EB, very close (ΔE 3.2)CSS color namesroyalblue #4169E1, close (ΔE 5.7)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of blue or search the color library.