Chefchaouen Blue #4895EF

About this color

#4895EF is a medium-light, vivid blue. In OKLCH its lightness is 66%, its chroma 0.154 and its hue 254°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Chefchaouen Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 6.82:1.

Colors that go with Chefchaouen Blue

Matches found by rotating Chefchaouen Blue around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Chefchaouen Blue

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Chefchaouen Blue, closest first.

• Signal and Vector
• Puddle Box
• Balloon Circus
• Crayon Castle
• Sensor Stack
• Sensor Node
• Vector and Kernel
• Sensor Render

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Chefchaouen Blue, with their ΔE distance.

• Dark Sky Blue #448EE4 ΔE 0.024
• Cornflower Blue #6495ED ΔE 0.025
• Dodger Blue #1E90FF ΔE 0.038
• Soft Blue #6488EA ΔE 0.039
• Water Blue #0E87CC ΔE 0.073
• Cornflower #6A79F7 ΔE 0.077
• Faded Blue #658CBB ΔE 0.078
• Perrywinkle #8F8CE7 ΔE 0.079

More about Chefchaouen Blue

• Shades of blue
• What blue means

How to make Chefchaouen Blue

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts blue
• 3 parts white
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #6195DF, a difference of ΔE 0.032 from Chefchaouen Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make blue? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Chefchaouen Blue in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Chefchaouen Blue

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 500.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F1F6FC

   oklch(97.1% 0.01 252.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E0EBF9

   oklch(93.6% 0.022 254.4)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C7DBF5

   oklch(88.5% 0.042 255)

4. Step 300

   300

   #9FC4F1

   oklch(80.9% 0.075 253.6)

5. Step 400

   400

   #69A4EA

   oklch(70.8% 0.12 253.6)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #4895EF

   oklch(66.4% 0.154 254.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #1473D2

   oklch(55.7% 0.168 253.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #015FB6

   oklch(49% 0.157 254.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #0A4E93

   oklch(42.6% 0.13 254.2)

10. Step 900

    900

    #144275

    oklch(37.7% 0.1 253.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #0D2745

    oklch(27% 0.064 254)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Chefchaouen Blue with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.