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Cadet Blue

Hex #5F9EA0, rgb(95 158 160). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

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About Cadet Blue

Cadet Blue is a medium moderately saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #5F9EA0. In RGB it is made of 95 red, 158 green and 160 blue; in HSL its hue is 182°, with 25% saturation and 50% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 65.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "cadetblue" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 3.05:1 and against black 6.88:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Cadet Blue mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Cadet Blue 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Cadet Blue

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Cadet Blue with white and black. The readable text color on Cadet Blue is black.

Cadet Blue textSmall text on white

On white3.05:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 57

Cadet Blue textSmall text on black

On black6.88:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -45

Black text on Cadet Blue (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Cadet Blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#9699A0
  • Deuteranopia#8B90A0
  • Tritanopia#42A29E
  • Protanomaly#8A99A0
  • Deuteranomaly#8394A0
  • Tritanomaly#55A09F
  • Achromatopsia#949494

Colors similar to Cadet Blue

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Cadet Blue in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.cadet-blue {
  color: cadetblue; /* #5F9EA0 */
  background-color: rgb(95 158 160);
  border-color: oklch(65.8% 0.065 198.3);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-cadet-blue-500, text-cadet-blue-700... */
@theme {
  --color-cadet-blue-50: #F7FBFB;
  --color-cadet-blue-100: #E7F1F1;
  --color-cadet-blue-200: #D0E2E3;
  --color-cadet-blue-300: #ACCDCE;
  --color-cadet-blue-400: #7CB1B2;
  --color-cadet-blue-500: #5F9EA0;
  --color-cadet-blue-600: #4B888A;
  --color-cadet-blue-700: #396D6E;
  --color-cadet-blue-800: #2E5657;
  --color-cadet-blue-900: #254546;
  --color-cadet-blue-950: #061A1A;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#5F9EA0] text-[#000000]">…</div>