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Pictured: Royal blue (web), the closest color we have a photo of (#4169E1)
rgb(60, 105, 231)
#3C69E7

Bluetiful #3C69E7 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Bluetiful (#3C69E7) is a vivid, medium blue. In RGB it is made of 24% red, 41% green and 91% blue (R 60, G 105, B 231). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 224°, 78% saturation and 57% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.168, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 74% cyan, 55% magenta, 0% yellow and 9% 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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Bluetiful color codes

#3C69E7 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #3C69E7 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(60, 105, 231) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(224, 78%, 57%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(224, 74%, 91%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(224 24% 9%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(74%, 55%, 0%, 9%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(56.22% 0.1975 265.51) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(56.22% -0.0155 -0.1969) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(46.94% 18.85 -69.81) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(46.94% 72.31 285.11) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.2767 0.4073 0.8749) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2134 0.1683 0.7773) Valid CSS
Decimal 3959271 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1683. Nearest web-safe color: #3366FF.

Mix Bluetiful with other colors

See what #3C69E7 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.

PaintBluetiful and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightBluetiful and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintBluetiful and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalBluetiful blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Bluetiful in your code

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

WhereCodeCopy
CSS variable--bluetiful: #3C69E7;
Sass variable$bluetiful: #3C69E7;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-bluetiful: #3C69E7; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'bluetiful': '#3C69E7' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.235, green: 0.412, blue: 0.906)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.235, green: 0.412, blue: 0.906, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="bluetiful">#FF3C69E7</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF3C69E7)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #3C69E7 (4.81:1, AA). Here is how #3C69E7 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.81:1 on white
APCA Lc 73
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
4.37:1 on black
APCA Lc -29
AA LargeTry #3E6BE9

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 Bluetiful

#3C69E7 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

#3C69E7 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 Bluetiful

A crayon inspired by a new pigment

In 2009, chemist Mas Subramanian and his graduate student Andrew E. Smith made a new blue pigment at Oregon State University. They called it YInMn Blue, after the yttrium, indium and manganese in it. You can read how it was found in the Wikipedia article on YInMn Blue.

In May 2017, Crayola said a new blue based on that pigment would take the slot of dandelion, a yellow it had just retired. The crayon does not contain any real YInMn. Crayola asked the public for easier names and picked Bluetiful on September 14, 2017. The crayon reached stores late that year.

Two codes on Wikipedia

Wikipedia's list of colors gives Bluetiful as #3C69E7, with Crayola as the source, and that is the code used here. The Crayola crayon table on Wikipedia shows the same RGB numbers (60, 105, 231) but prints #263A79 next to them. That is a much darker navy and does not match those numbers, so it looks like a typo.

For other crayon blues, see Crayola's plain blue. The real pigment is often compared with cobalt blue.

Bluetiful in a user interface

A sample app screen with #3C69E7 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #3C69E7 as it is. On the dark theme, #3C69E7 is too hard to read as text (3.69:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #4978F7 there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Bluetiful

These schemes turn the hue of #3C69E7 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#3C69E7#E7BA3C

Analogous

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

Open palette
#3CBFE7this#3C69E7#653CE7

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#3C69E7#E73C69#69E73C

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#3C69E7#E7653C#BFE73C

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#3C69E7#BA3CE7#E7BA3C#69E73C

Square

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

Open palette
this#3C69E7#E73CBF#E7BA3C#3CE765

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#0B205B#143AA5#2759E4#7192EE#BBCBF7

Gradients with Bluetiful

Four CSS gradients made from #3C69E7. 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, #D6E2FD, #3C69E7);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #3C69E7, #0A1840);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3CBFE7, #3C69E7, #653CE7);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3C69E7, #9E64AC, #E73C69);

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Shades, tints and tones of Bluetiful

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)

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

  1. 50
    F3F7FF
  2. 100
    E4EDFF
  3. 200
    CADBFF
  4. 300
    A4C0FF
  5. 400
    769FFF
  6. 500
    4C7CFB
  7. 600
    3C69E7
  8. 700
    2448B7
  9. 800
    193794
  10. 900
    11286E
  11. 950
    0C1A3F

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #3C69E7 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 5015 Sky blue#2874B2, close (ΔE 9.2)Tailwind CSSblue-600 #2563EB, very close (ΔE 2.6)CSS color namesroyalblue #4169E1, nearly the same (ΔE 1.0)

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.