Navy

Hex #000080, rgb(0 0 128). A blue CSS named color.

Navy#000080

Navy color codes

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About Navy

Navy is a very dark saturated blue with the hex code #000080. In RGB it is made of 0 red, 0 green and 128 blue; in HSL its hue is 240°, with 100% saturation and 25% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 27.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "navy" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 16.01:1 and against black 1.31:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Navy 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 Navy

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 Navy with white and black. The readable text color on Navy is white.

Navy textSmall text on white

On white16.01:1

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

APCA Lc 101

Navy textSmall text on black

On black1.31:1

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

APCA Lc 0

White text on Navy (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#002883
Deuteranopia#001A7E
Tritanopia#003248
Protanomaly#002182
Deuteranomaly#00177F
Tritanomaly#001E6B
Achromatopsia#212121

Colors similar to Navy

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Navy in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.navy {
  color: navy; /* #000080 */
  background-color: rgb(0 0 128);
  border-color: oklch(27.1% 0.188 264.1);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-navy-500, text-navy-700... */
@theme {
  --color-navy-50: #F8FAFF;
  --color-navy-100: #E6EFFF;
  --color-navy-200: #CDDEFF;
  --color-navy-300: #A8C5FF;
  --color-navy-400: #75A1FF;
  --color-navy-500: #5388FF;
  --color-navy-600: #356FFF;
  --color-navy-700: #0E4BFF;
  --color-navy-800: #0031EA;
  --color-navy-900: #0028CA;
  --color-navy-950: #000080;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#000080] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>