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Color#7a8dd7rgb(122, 141, 215) · blue

#7a8dd7 color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #7a8dd7.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#7a8dd7 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 7a red, 8d green, d7 blue.

What RGB means

Red 122, green 141, blue 215 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 228° (blue), saturation 54%, lightness 66%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (65.9%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text3.17:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text6.62:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For white text

#6072b9

4.56:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #f0f7ff;
  --primary-100: #e1ecff;
  --primary-200: #c9d7ff;
  --primary-300: #adbefa;
  --primary-400: #8b9de3;
  --primary-500: #7a8dd7;
  --primary-600: #5262a7;
  --primary-700: #3f4d8b;
  --primary-800: #303c73;
  --primary-900: #26305e;
  --primary-950: #141a37;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7a8dd7, #d7c479);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #7a8dd7;
background-color: #7a8dd7;
:root {
  --color-primary: #7a8dd7;
}
color: rgb(122 141 215);
color: oklch(65.9% 0.1126 272.05);
<div class="bg-[#7a8dd7]">…</div>