#080BAD

sRGB: 8 / 11 / 173

Hollow echoes illuminate hidden paths
Silent memories shimmer across boundless heavens
Brilliant stars shatter the chains of fate

#080BAD belongs to the blue family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 8 red, 11 green and 173 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 238.9° lands in the blue region. Its 91.2% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 35.5% 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 (12.64:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 8, 11, 173
HSL: 238.91°, 91.16%, 35.49%
HSV / HSB: 238.91°, 95.38%, 67.84%
CMYK (approx.): 95.38%, 93.64%, 0.00%, 32.16%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 7.762, 3.308, 39.766
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 21.237, 56.425, -78.749
WCAG relative luminance: 0.03308
24-bit decimal: 527277

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 #080BAD 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: 1.66:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 12.64:1

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

#ADAA08 sits half a turn (180°) from #080BAD 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.

#080BAD #ADAA08

Analogous

#085EAD and #5708AD sit 30° to either side of #080BAD. 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.

#085EAD #080BAD #5708AD

Triadic

#080BAD, #AD080B and #0BAD08 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#080BAD #AD080B #0BAD08

Split complementary

Start at #080BAD and look across the wheel. #AD5708 and #5EAD08 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#080BAD #AD5708 #5EAD08

Square

Starting with #080BAD, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #AD085E, #ADAA08, then #08AD57. Across the square, #080BAD pairs with #ADAA08, and #AD085E with #08AD57.

#080BAD #AD085E #ADAA08 #08AD57

Tetradic

#080BAD and #ADAA08 are opposites, as are #AA08AD and #0BAD08. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#080BAD #AA08AD #ADAA08 #0BAD08

Tints

Mixing #080BAD with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #393CBD, keeps 80% of the original. By #CECEEF, the mixture is 80% white.

#080BAD #393CBD #6B6DCE #9C9DDE #CECEEF #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #080BAD with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #06098A, keeps 80% of the original. By #020223, the mixture is 80% black.

#080BAD #06098A #050768 #030445 #020223 #000000

Tones

Mixing #080BAD with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #2022A4, keeps 80% of the original. By #686989, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#080BAD #2022A4 #383A9B #505192 #686989 #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

#080BAD

RGB

rgb(8 11 173)

HSL

hsl(238.909 91.160% 35.490%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #080BAD;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#080BAD uses 8 red, 11 green and 173 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 3.1%

Green 4.3%

Blue 67.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #080BAD is 95.4% cyan, 93.6% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 32.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 95.4%

Magenta 93.6%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 32.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #0011AA. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #01A in CSS. For a modern design, keep #080BAD when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #000099, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #0011AA Nearest web-safe: #000099

Gradient to complement

#080BAD #242692 #3F4076 #5B5B5B #76753F #929024 #ADAA08

Color vision previews

Compare how #080BAD 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.

#003BB1

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.

#002AAB

Tritanopia

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

#004865

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.

#002FAF

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.

#0025AC

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#002A98

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#333333

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.

#242583

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 0.00335 B 0.41789

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 0.03348 G 0.04276 B 0.65056

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.00259 G 0.00332 B 0.38078

CIE xyY

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

x 0.153 y 0.065 Y 3.308

CMY

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

C % 96.863 M % 95.686 Y % 32.157

Binary RGB

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

00001000 00001011 10101101