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#002266

#002266

Blues · #026 is the three-digit shorthand for #002266. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#002266
RGB0, 34, 102
HSL220°, 100%, 20%
CMYK100%, 67%, 0%, 60%
Relative luminance0.02

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

14.78:1 Passes AA

Aa

On black

1.42:1 Below AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#664400

Analogous

#005566#110066

Triadic

#660022#226600

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #026 and #002266 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #026 expands to #002266. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #002266?

White text. Contrast against white is 14.78:1 and against black 1.42:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #002266?

Midnight blue. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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