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#2211AA

#2211AA

Blues · #21a is the three-digit shorthand for #2211AA. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#2211AA
RGB34, 17, 170
HSL247°, 82%, 37%
CMYK80%, 90%, 0%, 33%
Relative luminance0.04

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

12.15:1 Passes AA

Aa

On black

1.73:1 Below AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#9AAC11

Analogous

#114CAC#7011AC

Triadic

#AC2311#11AC23

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 #21a and #2211AA the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #21a expands to #2211AA. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #2211AA?

White text. Contrast against white is 12.15:1 and against black 1.73:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #2211AA?

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

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