CSS named color

Dodger Blue #1E90FF

Dodger 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 Dodger Blue used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
3.24:1

On white

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✓
Aa The quick brown fox
6.49:1

On black

AA ✓ AAA ✕ AA Large ✓

Tints, shades & tones

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

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Simulated colour vision

How Dodger 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#1E90FF

Tailwind-style ramp

Eleven steps from 50 to 950 with the hue and saturation of Dodger 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 Dodger Blue by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Use Dodger Blue in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#1e90ff], border-[#1e90ff].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

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

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