Azure Color Codes

Azure is an off-white with the hex code #F0FFFF, RGB values of 240, 255, 255 and an HSL value of hsl(180, 100%, 97%).

HEX	#F0FFFF
RGB	240, 255, 255
HSL	hsl(180, 100%, 97%)
HSV	180°, 6%, 100%
CMYK	6%, 0%, 0%, 0%
LAB	98.93, -4.88, -1.69
CIELCHuv	98.93, 8.36, 192.17°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 628 C ΔE 11.4 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: azure ΔE 0.0

Source CSS Color Module Level 4 keyword 'Azure'

Azure Color Hex Code

The Azure color hex code is #F0FFFF. Those six digits are three pairs, F0 for red, FF for green and FF for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#F0FFFF

Azure Color RGB Code

The Azure RGB code is rgb(240, 255, 255). Green carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(240, 255, 255)

Azure Color HSV Code

The Azure HSV code is 180°, 6%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 180 degrees, 6% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

180°, 6%, 100%

Azure Color CIELChuv Code

The Azure CIELCHuv code is 98.93, 8.36, 192.17°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 99 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 8 is how far it sits from grey.

98.93, 8.36, 192.17°

Tonal scale

What are Azure Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Azure Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #F0FFFF. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

The opposite hue is #FFF0F0, an off-white. Complements carry the strongest contrast of any two-color scheme, so this pair suits a call to action better than a background. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Its two neighbours are #F0FFF8 and #F0F8FF. Because they overlap heavily in hue, nothing in the group competes, and the eye reads the whole set as a single color with variation.

Triadic

#FFF0FF and #FFFFF0 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #FFF0F8 and #FFF8F0. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #FFF0F0, and #F8F0FF with #F8FFF0. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.03:1

1.03

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

20.45:1

20.45

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.03:1 against white, Azure is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 20.45:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Azure against another color →

Color vision

How Azure looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#F7F7FF

Azure shifts slightly here. ΔE 6.8

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#F6F5FF

Azure shifts slightly here. ΔE 7.9

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#F1FFFF

Azure holds up almost unchanged here. ΔE 0.3

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#FCFCFC

Azure shifts slightly here. ΔE 5.2

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Azure reads as #F6F5FF. That is a shift of ΔE 7.9, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 7.9. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Azure in code

:root {
  --azure: #F0FFFF;
}

.example {
  color: var(--azure);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'azure': '#F0FFFF',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let azure = Color(
    red: 0.941,
    green: 1.000,
    blue: 1.000
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="azure">#F0FFFF</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const azure = Color(0xFFF0FFFF);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Azure Color?

Azure reads as distance and quiet. It is light enough to sit behind text rather than compete with it, and at 100% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 99 it behaves as a cool color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Azure Color?

In CSS you can write Azure instead of the hex and get the same color: the two are 0.0 apart, which no eye resolves. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 628 C at #CCE2DD. The name Azure comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Azure Color Made?

On a screen Azure is made by additive light: 240 red, 255 green and 255 blue out of 255, with green leading and 240 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 6%, 0%, 0%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 180 degrees, Azure is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.