#080340

sRGB: 8 / 3 / 64

Hollow echoes illuminate hidden paths
Silent memories flicker through endless evenings
Quiet wishes vanish without farewell

#080340 belongs to the blue family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 8 red, 3 green and 64 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 244.9° lands in the blue region. Its 91.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 13.1% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (19.14:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 8, 3, 64
HSL: 244.92°, 91.04%, 13.14%
HSV / HSB: 244.92°, 95.31%, 25.10%
CMYK (approx.): 87.50%, 95.31%, 0.00%, 74.90%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 1.058, 0.487, 4.889
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 4.398, 23.719, -35.911
WCAG relative luminance: 0.00487
24-bit decimal: 525120

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #080340 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 1.10:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 19.14:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#3B4003 sits half a turn (180°) from #080340 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#080340 #3B4003

Analogous

#031C40 and #270340 sit 30° to either side of #080340. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#031C40 #080340 #270340

Triadic

#080340, #400803 and #034008 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#080340 #400803 #034008

Split complementary

Start at #080340 and look across the wheel. #402703 and #1C4003 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#080340 #402703 #1C4003

Square

Starting with #080340, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #40031C, #3B4003, then #034027. Across the square, #080340 pairs with #3B4003, and #40031C with #034027.

#080340 #40031C #3B4003 #034027

Tetradic

#080340 and #3B4003 are opposites, as are #40033B and #034008. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#080340 #40033B #3B4003 #034008

Tints

Mixing #080340 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #393566, keeps 80% of the original. By #CECDD9, the mixture is 80% white.

#080340 #393566 #6B688C #9C9AB3 #CECDD9 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #080340 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #060233, keeps 80% of the original. By #02010D, the mixture is 80% black.

#080340 #060233 #050226 #03011A #02010D #000000

Tones

Mixing #080340 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #201C4D, keeps 80% of the original. By #686773, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#080340 #201C4D #38355A #504E66 #686773 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#080340

RGB

rgb(8 3 64)

HSL

hsl(244.918 91.045% 13.137%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #080340;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#080340 uses 8 red, 3 green and 64 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 3.1%

Green 1.2%

Blue 25.1%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #080340 is 87.5% cyan, 95.3% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 74.9% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 87.5%

Magenta 95.3%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 74.9%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #000044. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #004 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #080340 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #000033, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #000044 Nearest web-safe: #000033

Gradient to complement

#080340 #110D36 #19172C #222222 #2A2C17 #33360D #3B4003

Color vision previews

Compare how #080340 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#001242

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#000C3F

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#001622

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#000D41

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#000A3F

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#010B37

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#0F0F0F

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#0C0A2F

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.00243 G 0.00091 B 0.05127

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.02789 G 0.01242 B 0.23954

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.00216 G 0.00096 B 0.04679

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.164 y 0.076 Y 0.487

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 96.863 M % 98.824 Y % 74.902

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

00001000 00000011 01000000