#697C8D

sRGB · 105 / 124 / 141

#697C8D belongs to the azure family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 105 red, 124 green and 141 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 208.3° lands in the azure region. Its 14.6% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 48.2% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (4.87:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 105, 124, 141
HSL: 208.33°, 14.63%, 48.24%
HSV / HSB: 208.33°, 25.53%, 55.29%
CMYK (approx.): 25.53%, 12.06%, 0.00%, 44.71%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 17.840, 19.341, 27.993
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 51.084, -2.876, -11.502
WCAG relative luminance: 0.19342
24-bit decimal: 6913165

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 #697C8D 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 · 4.87:1

Normal text: AA
Large text: AAA

White text · 4.31:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: AA

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. 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

#8D7A69 sits half a turn (180°) from #697C8D 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.

#697C8D #8D7A69

Analogous

#698D8C and #696A8D sit 30° to either side of #697C8D. 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.

#698D8C #697C8D #696A8D

Triadic

#697C8D, #8D697C and #7C8D69 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#697C8D #8D697C #7C8D69

Split complementary

Start at #697C8D and look across the wheel. #8D696A and #8D8C69 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#697C8D #8D696A #8D8C69

Square

Starting with #697C8D, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #8C698D, #8D7A69, then #6A8D69. Across the square, #697C8D pairs with #8D7A69, and #8C698D with #6A8D69.

#697C8D #8C698D #8D7A69 #6A8D69

Tetradic

#697C8D and #8D7A69 are opposites, as are #7A698D and #7C8D69. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#697C8D #7A698D #8D7A69 #7C8D69

Tints

Mixing #697C8D with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #8796A4, keeps 80% of the original. By #E1E5E8, the mixture is 80% white.

#697C8D #8796A4 #A5B0BB #C3CBD1 #E1E5E8 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #697C8D with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #546371, keeps 80% of the original. By #15191C, the mixture is 80% black.

#697C8D #546371 #3F4A55 #2A3238 #15191C #000000

Tones

Mixing #697C8D with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #6E7D8A, keeps 80% of the original. By #7B7F83, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#697C8D #6E7D8A #727E88 #777E85 #7B7F83 #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

#697C8D

RGB

rgb(105 124 141)

HSL

hsl(208.333 14.634% 48.235%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #697C8D;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#697C8D uses 105 red, 124 green and 141 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 41.2%

Green 48.6%

Blue 55.3%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #697C8D is 25.5% cyan, 12.1% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 44.7% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 25.5%

Magenta 12.1%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 44.7%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #667788. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #678 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #697C8D when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #666699, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand · #667788 Nearest web-safe · #666699

Gradient to complement

#697C8D #6F7C87 #757B81 #7B7B7B #817B75 #877A6F #8D7A69

Color vision previews

Compare how #697C8D 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.

#757C8E

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.

#71788D

Tritanopia

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

#5F8081

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.

#717C8D

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.

#6F7A8D

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#687D89

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#7A7A7A

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.

#727B84

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 0.14126 G 0.20156 B 0.26636

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 0.42619 G 0.48403 B 0.54640

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.15197 G 0.19955 B 0.25953

CIE xyY

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

x 0.274 y 0.297 Y 19.341

CMY

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

C % 58.824 M % 51.373 Y % 44.706

Binary RGB

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

01101001 01111100 10001101