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Pictured: Han blue, the closest color we have a photo of (#446CCF)
rgb(75, 97, 209)
#4B61D1

Savoy Blue #4B61D1 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Savoy Blue (#4B61D1) is a vivid, medium blue. In RGB it is made of 29% red, 38% green and 82% blue (R 75, G 97, B 209). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 230°, 59% saturation and 56% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.146, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 64% cyan, 54% magenta, 0% yellow and 18% 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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Savoy Blue color codes

#4B61D1 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #4B61D1 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(75, 97, 209) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(230, 59%, 56%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(230, 64%, 82%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(230 29% 18%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(64%, 54%, 0%, 18%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(53.75% 0.1737 271.04) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(53.75% 0.0032 -0.1737) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(44.23% 19.6 -61.69) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(44.23% 64.73 287.63) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.3116 0.3779 0.792) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.1868 0.1465 0.6217) Valid CSS
Decimal 4940241 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.1465. Nearest web-safe color: #3366CC.

Mix Savoy Blue with other colors

See what #4B61D1 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.

PaintSavoy Blue and red paintOpen in the color mixer
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PrintSavoy Blue and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalSavoy Blue blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Savoy 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--savoy-blue: #4B61D1;
Sass variable$savoy-blue: #4B61D1;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-savoy-blue: #4B61D1; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'savoy-blue': '#4B61D1' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.294, green: 0.38, blue: 0.82)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.294, green: 0.38, blue: 0.82, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="savoy_blue">#FF4B61D1</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF4B61D1)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #4B61D1 (5.34:1, AA). Here is how #4B61D1 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.34:1 on white
APCA Lc 76
AA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.93:1 on black
APCA Lc -26
AA LargeTry #536BDC

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 Savoy Blue

#4B61D1 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

#4B61D1 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 Savoy Blue

The blue of a royal family

Savoy blue, also called savoy azure, is named after the House of Savoy. This family ruled Italy as kings from 1861 to 1946. Blue was the color of the family, and it became a national color when Italy was united in 1861.

Italy became a republic in 1946, but the color stayed. People started calling it Italian blue. Officers in the armed forces still wear a blue sash, and the president's flag has a blue border.

Why Italian teams wear blue

Italy's flag is green, white and red, yet its national sports teams play in blue shirts. That blue comes from the House of Savoy. The football team is known as the Azzurri, which means "the blues" in Italian.

About the code

The code #4B61D1 matches the one in the Wikipedia section on savoy blue. One catch: the web page Wikipedia cites as the source for the code is about a different color, ruddy blue. So the code is not backed by a solid source. Real Italian team shirts vary from year to year and are often lighter.

White text on savoy blue has a contrast ratio of 5.34 to 1, which passes for normal text. Savoy blue buttons with white labels should read well, and the contrast checker can confirm a pair. Savoy blue sits between Persian blue and periwinkle.

Savoy Blue in a user interface

A sample app screen with #4B61D1 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #4B61D1 as it is. On the dark theme, #4B61D1 is too hard to read as text (3.32:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #5E77EA there (4.48:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Savoy Blue

These schemes turn the hue of #4B61D1 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#4B61D1#D1BB4B

Analogous

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

Open palette
#4BA4D1this#4B61D1#784BD1

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#4B61D1#D14B61#61D14B

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#4B61D1#D1784B#A4D14B

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#4B61D1#BB4BD1#D1BB4B#61D14B

Square

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

Open palette
this#4B61D1#D14BA4#D1BB4B#4BD178

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#151F51#263893#3E56CE#8090DF#C2CAEF

Gradients with Savoy Blue

Four CSS gradients made from #4B61D1. 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, #D8E0F8, #4B61D1);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #4B61D1, #0E1539);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4BA4D1, #4B61D1, #784BD1);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4B61D1, #94619D, #D14B61);

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Shades, tints and tones of Savoy 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)

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

  1. 50
    F4F7FF
  2. 100
    E6ECFF
  3. 200
    CDDAFF
  4. 300
    AABEFF
  5. 400
    819CFF
  6. 500
    617BED
  7. 600
    4B61D1
  8. 700
    3749AC
  9. 800
    29378B
  10. 900
    1D2867
  11. 950
    121A3B

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #4B61D1 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 5015 Sky blue#2874B2, close (ΔE 8.0)Tailwind CSSblue-600 #2563EB, close (ΔE 5.1)CSS color namesroyalblue #4169E1, very close (ΔE 3.0)

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.