Dark Sky Blue #448EE4

About this color

#448EE4 is a medium-light, vivid blue. In OKLCH its lightness is 64%, its chroma 0.149 and its hue 254°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Dark Sky Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 6.23:1.

Colors that go with Dark Sky Blue

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

Color palettes with Dark Sky Blue

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

• Signal and Vector
• Compass Advisory
• Vector Grid
• Sensor Stack
• Puddle Box
• Balloon Circus
• Crayon Castle
• Cumulus Drift

Similar named colors

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

• Chefchaouen Blue #4895EF ΔE 0.024
• Soft Blue #6488EA ΔE 0.035
• Cornflower Blue #6495ED ΔE 0.040
• Dodger Blue #1E90FF ΔE 0.043
• Water Blue #0E87CC ΔE 0.051
• Faded Blue #658CBB ΔE 0.066
• Cool Blue #4984B8 ΔE 0.067
• Cornflower #6A79F7 ΔE 0.072

More about Dark Sky Blue

• Shades of blue
• What blue means

How to make Dark Sky 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.

• 4 parts blue
• 3 parts white
• 1 part pink

Recipe result: #4D8DD9, a difference of ΔE 0.017 from Dark Sky Blue. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make blue? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dark Sky 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 Dark Sky 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

   #E0EBF8

   oklch(93.6% 0.021 252.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C7DBF4

   oklch(88.4% 0.041 254)

4. Step 300

   300

   #A0C4EF

   oklch(80.9% 0.072 253.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #6CA4E8

   oklch(70.8% 0.116 254)

6. Step 500

   500 (this color)

   #448EE4

   oklch(64% 0.149 254)

7. Step 600

   600

   #1B73CF

   oklch(55.6% 0.163 254)

8. Step 700

   700

   #0B60B3

   oklch(49.1% 0.151 254)

9. Step 800

   800

   #0F4F91

   oklch(42.8% 0.125 253.8)

10. Step 900

    900

    #164273

    oklch(37.7% 0.097 253.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #0F2744

    oklch(27% 0.062 254.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark Sky 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.