Photo in the color Royal blue (traditional)
Pictured: Royal blue (traditional), the closest color we have a photo of (#002366)
rgb(6, 42, 120)
#062A78

Catalina Blue #062A78 RGB Color Code

Catalina Blue (#062A78) is a moderately saturated, dark blue. In RGB it is made of 2% red, 16% green and 47% blue (R 6, G 42, B 120). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 221Β°, 90% saturation and 25% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.031, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 95% cyan, 65% magenta, 0% yellow and 53% 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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Catalina Blue color codes

#062A78 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #062A78 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(6, 42, 120) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(221, 90%, 25%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(221, 95%, 47%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(221 2% 53%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(95%, 65%, 0%, 53%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(32.05% 0.1389 262.63) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(32.05% -0.0178 -0.1378) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(19.39% 15.48 -48.75) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(19.39% 51.15 287.62) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.0667 0.1619 0.4526) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.0429 0.0305 0.1813) Valid CSS
Decimal 404088 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.0305. Nearest web-safe color: #003366.

Mix Catalina Blue with other colors

See what #062A78 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.

PaintCatalina Blue and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightCatalina Blue and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintCatalina Blue and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalCatalina Blue blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Catalina Blue 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--catalina-blue: #062A78;
Sass variable$catalina-blue: #062A78;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-catalina-blue: #062A78; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'catalina-blue': '#062A78' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.024, green: 0.165, blue: 0.471)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.024, green: 0.165, blue: 0.471, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="catalina_blue">#FF062A78</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF062A78)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #062A78 (13.04:1, AAA). Here is how #062A78 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
13.04:1 on white
APCA Lc 99
AAA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.61:1 on black
APCA Lc 0
Fails AATry #4872C6

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 Catalina Blue

#062A78 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

#062A78 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 Catalina Blue

A name from an online list

Catalina Blue is a deep, inky blue. The code #062A78 comes from Name That Color, a free list of about 1,500 color names that many web tools copy. We found no older history for this exact shade. Benjamin Moore sells a paint called Catalina Blue, but that one is a soft blue green and has nothing to do with this code.

Using it on a page

Catalina Blue is dark enough for white text. The contrast ratio of white on #062A78 is 13.04 to 1. Close neighbors are midnight blue and navy blue, which are a bit darker.

Catalina Blue in a user interface

A sample app screen with #062A78 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #062A78 as it is. On the dark theme, #062A78 is too hard to read as text (1.36:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #537ED4 there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Catalina Blue

These schemes turn the hue of #062A78 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#062A78#785406

Analogous

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

Open palette
#066378this#062A78#1B0678

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#062A78#78062A#2A7806

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#062A78#781B06#637806

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#062A78#540678#785406#2A7806

Square

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

Open palette
this#062A78#780663#785406#06781B

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#052261#093EB0#185EF3#6795F7#B6CCFB

Gradients with Catalina Blue

Four CSS gradients made from #062A78. 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, #C9D3E5, #062A78);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #062A78, #00051D);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #066378, #062A78, #1B0678);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #062A78, #4A2A54, #78062A);

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Shades, tints and tones of Catalina Blue

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)

Catalina Blue sits at step 900. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F3F7FF
  2. 100
    E4EDFF
  3. 200
    C8DCFF
  4. 300
    A0C1FF
  5. 400
    76A2F6
  6. 500
    5883D9
  7. 600
    3F68BA
  8. 700
    2D519B
  9. 800
    213F7D
  10. 900
    062A78
  11. 950
    101C35

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #062A78 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 5002 Ultramarine blue#2B2C7C, very close (Ξ”E 4.2)Tailwind CSSindigo-900 #312E81, close (Ξ”E 5.4)CSS color namesmidnightblue #191970, very close (Ξ”E 4.1)

Ξ”E 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 (Ξ”E in OKLab). Browse all shades of blue or search the color library.