CSS named color

Blue #0000FF

Blue is vivid blue. Below: every color format, WCAG contrast against black and white, its tints, shades and tones, and the harmonies that pair with it.

Color values

Contrast & accessibility

WCAG contrast ratio of Blue used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
8.59:1

On white

AA ✓ AAA ✓ AA Large ✓
Aa The quick brown fox
2.44:1

On black

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✕

Tints, shades & tones

Systematic variations of Blue — click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Simulated colour vision

How Blue reads under the four common colour-vision deficiencies, using the standard Machado (2009) matrices at full severity. A simulation, not a measurement of any one person's vision; the point is whether this colour still does its job when hue drops out.

Typical vision#0000FF

Tailwind-style ramp

Eleven steps from 50 to 950 with the hue and saturation of Blue held and only lightness stepped. Computed, not curated: the 500 step sits closest to the source, which is where Tailwind puts a brand colour.

Color harmonies

Palettes built from Blue by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Use Blue in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#0000ff], border-[#0000ff].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

Turn Blue into a complete shadcn/ui palette — light & dark, contrast-checked, one-command install.

Extract a theme →

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