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rgb(119, 181, 254)
#77B5FE

French Sky Blue #77B5FE RGB Color Code

French Sky Blue (#77B5FE) is a moderately saturated, light blue. In RGB it is made of 47% red, 71% green and 100% blue (R 119, G 181, B 254). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 212Β°, 99% saturation and 73% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.441, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 53% cyan, 29% 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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French Sky Blue color codes

#77B5FE in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #77B5FE Valid CSS
RGB rgb(119, 181, 254) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(212, 99%, 73%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(212, 53%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(212 47% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(53%, 29%, 0%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(76.07% 0.1237 253.34) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(76.07% -0.0355 -0.1185) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(71.72% -5.12 -42.95) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(71.72% 43.25 263.2) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5208 0.7034 0.9727) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4202 0.4412 1.0007) Valid CSS
Decimal 7845374 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4413. Nearest web-safe color: #66CCFF.

Mix French Sky Blue with other colors

See what #77B5FE 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.

PaintFrench Sky Blue and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightFrench Sky Blue and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintFrench Sky Blue and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalFrench Sky Blue blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use French Sky 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--french-sky-blue: #77B5FE;
Sass variable$french-sky-blue: #77B5FE;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-french-sky-blue: #77B5FE; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'french-sky-blue': '#77B5FE' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.467, green: 0.71, blue: 0.996)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.467, green: 0.71, blue: 0.996, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="french_sky_blue">#FF77B5FE</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF77B5FE)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #77B5FE (9.83:1, AAA). Here is how #77B5FE does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.14:1 on white
APCA Lc 42
Fails AATry #3D79BD
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
9.83:1 on black
APCA Lc -60
AAA

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 French Sky Blue

#77B5FE 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

#77B5FE 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 French Sky Blue

Bleu ciel from a French list

French sky blue is the shade called bleu ciel, or sky blue, in the color list of Pourpre.com. That is a French website with a large dictionary of color names, and it is popular in France. The Wikipedia article on sky blue gives it the code #77B5FE.

Next to other sky blues

Every list seems to have its own sky blue. The CSS keyword sky blue is #87CEEB, a paler and greener tone. The French version is stronger and leans more toward pure blue. It works best with dark text: black on it scores 9.8:1, white only 2.1:1. You can check other pairs with the contrast checker.

French Sky Blue in a user interface

A sample app screen with #77B5FE as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #77B5FE as it is. On the light theme, #77B5FE is too hard to read as text (2.14:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #3D79BD there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for French Sky Blue

These schemes turn the hue of #77B5FE 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#77B5FE#FEC077

Analogous

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

Open palette
#77F9FEthis#77B5FE#7D77FE

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#77B5FE#FE77B5#B5FE77

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#77B5FE#FE7D77#F9FE77

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#77B5FE#C077FE#FEC077#B5FE77

Square

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

Open palette
this#77B5FE#FE77F9#FEC077#77FE7D

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#012F65#0155B8#0F7CFD#61A9FE#B3D6FE

Gradients with French Sky Blue

Four CSS gradients made from #77B5FE. 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, #E4F1FF, #77B5FE);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #77B5FE, #1C3047);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #77F9FE, #77B5FE, #7D77FE);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #77B5FE, #C79CDA, #FE77B5);

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Shades, tints and tones of French Sky 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)

French Sky Blue sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F1F7FF
  2. 100
    E1EEFF
  3. 200
    C2DEFF
  4. 300
    94C5FF
  5. 400
    77B5FE
  6. 500
    4C89CE
  7. 600
    326DB0
  8. 700
    205692
  9. 800
    154375
  10. 900
    0F3156
  11. 950
    0C1E32

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #77B5FE in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6034 Pastel turquoise#7FB0B2, rough match (Ξ”E 10.9)Tailwind CSSsky-400 #38BDF8, very close (Ξ”E 5.0)CSS color namesdeepskyblue #00BFFF, close (Ξ”E 6.0)

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.