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Pictured: Steel blue, the closest color we have a photo of (#4682B4)
rgb(80, 135, 189)
#5087BD

Sea Salt Rivers #5087BD RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Sea Salt Rivers (#5087BD) is a moderately saturated, medium blue. In RGB it is made of 31% red, 53% green and 74% blue (R 80, G 135, B 189). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 210°, 45% saturation and 53% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.227, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 58% cyan, 29% magenta, 0% yellow and 26% 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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Sea Salt Rivers color codes

#5087BD in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #5087BD Valid CSS
RGB rgb(80, 135, 189) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(210, 45%, 53%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(210, 58%, 74%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(210 31% 26%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(58%, 29%, 0%, 26%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(60.87% 0.1013 249.4) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(60.87% -0.0356 -0.0948) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(54.28% -6.42 -34.36) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(54.28% 34.95 259.42) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.364 0.524 0.7235) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2116 0.2271 0.5141) Valid CSS
Decimal 5277629 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.2271. Nearest web-safe color: #6699CC.

Mix Sea Salt Rivers with other colors

See what #5087BD 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.

Use Sea Salt Rivers 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--sea-salt-rivers: #5087BD;
Sass variable$sea-salt-rivers: #5087BD;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-sea-salt-rivers: #5087BD; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'sea-salt-rivers': '#5087BD' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.314, green: 0.529, blue: 0.741)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.314, green: 0.529, blue: 0.741, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="sea_salt_rivers">#FF5087BD</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF5087BD)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #5087BD (5.54:1, AA). Here is how #5087BD does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
3.79:1 on white
APCA Lc 65
AA LargeTry #447AB0
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
5.54:1 on black
APCA Lc -36
AA

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 Sea Salt Rivers

#5087BD 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

#5087BD 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.

Sea Salt Rivers in a user interface

A sample app screen with #5087BD as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #5087BD as it is. On the light theme, #5087BD is too hard to read as text (3.79:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #447AB0 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Sea Salt Rivers

These schemes turn the hue of #5087BD 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Sea Salt Rivers

Four CSS gradients made from #5087BD. 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, #DBE7F2, #5087BD);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #5087BD, #102133);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #50BDBD, #5087BD, #5051BD);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #5087BD, #9271A2, #BD5087);

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Shades, tints and tones of Sea Salt Rivers

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)

Sea Salt Rivers sits at step 500. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F1F8FF
  2. 100
    DFEFFF
  3. 200
    BFDFFF
  4. 300
    98C6F5
  5. 400
    73A8DD
  6. 500
    5087BD
  7. 600
    3A6FA3
  8. 700
    275886
  9. 800
    1B456B
  10. 900
    13324F
  11. 950
    0E1E2E

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #5087BD in three color systems that designers and builders use.

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.