Electric Blue Color Codes
Electric Blue is a very light, vivid teal with the hex code #7DF9FF, RGB values of 125, 249, 255 and an HSL value of hsl(183, 100%, 75%).
| HEX | #7DF9FF |
|---|---|
| RGB | 125, 249, 255 |
| HSL | hsl(183, 100%, 75%) |
| HSV | 183°, 51%, 100% |
| CMYK | 51%, 2%, 0%, 0% |
| LAB | 91.38, -33.04, -13.53 |
| CIELCHuv | 91.38, 54.82, 197.30° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 3105 C ΔE 13.8 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
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aquaΔE 15.1
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Electric Blue Color Hex Code
The Electric Blue color hex code is #7DF9FF. Those six digits are three pairs, 7D for red, F9 for green and FF for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#7DF9FF
Electric Blue Color RGB Code
The Electric Blue RGB code is rgb(125, 249, 255). Blue carries the most light at 255 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(125, 249, 255)
Electric Blue Color HSV Code
The Electric Blue HSV code is 183°, 51%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 183 degrees, 51% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
183°, 51%, 100%
Electric Blue Color CIELChuv Code
The Electric Blue CIELCHuv code is 91.38, 54.82, 197.30°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 91 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 55 is how far it sits from grey.
91.38, 54.82, 197.30°
Tonal scale
What are Electric Blue 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
Palettes
What are Electric Blue Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #7DF9FF. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
The opposite hue is #FF837D, a mid-tone, vivid red. 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 #7DFFC4 and #7DB8FF. 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
#FF7DF9 and #F9FF7D 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: #FF7DB8 and #FFC47D. 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 #FF837D, and #C47DFF with #B8FF7D. 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.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Electric Blue accessible?
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
1.25:11.25
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
16.87:116.87
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 1.25:1 against white, Electric Blue 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 16.87:1. 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.
Color vision
How Electric Blue 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#C0C1FE
Electric Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 49.7
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#B9AFFD
Electric Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 60.5
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#87FCFC
Electric Blue shifts slightly here. ΔE 3.4
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#E6E6E6
Electric Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 35.7
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, Electric Blue reads as #B9AFFD. That is a shift of ΔE 60.5, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. The widest shift is under deuteranopia, at ΔE 60.5. 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.
Snippets
Using Electric Blue in code
:root {
--electric-blue: #7DF9FF;
}
.example {
color: var(--electric-blue);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'electric-blue': '#7DF9FF',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let electricBlue = Color(
red: 0.490,
green: 0.976,
blue: 1.000
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="electric_blue">#7DF9FF</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const electricBlue = Color(0xFF7DF9FF);