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Pure Blue
#1492E1

Pure Blue (#1492E1) with RGB(20, 146, 225) and HSL(203, 84%, 48%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

CyanCorecool

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Interactive

UI Sandbox

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Active theme: Pure Blue

Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#1492E1

RGB

rgb(20, 146, 225)

HSL

hsl(203, 84%, 48%)

HSV

hsv(203, 91%, 88%)

CMYK

cmyk(91%, 35%, 0%, 12%)

Decimal

1348321

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

3.37:1

On black

6.23:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#031826 #062E46 #0A4C75 #0E6BA4 #1289D3 #2CA3ED #5BB7F1 #80C8F4 #ABDAF8 #D5EDFB

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

3.37:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

6.23:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#1492E1 #E16214

Triadic

Open palette

#1492E1 #E11492 #92E114

Analogous

Open palette

#14E1C9 #14C6E1 #1492E1 #145FE1 #142CE1

Split complementary

Open palette

#1492E1 #E1142C #E1C914

Tetradic

Open palette

#1492E1 #C914E1 #E16214 #2CE114

Monochromatic

Open palette

#083D5E #0E6BA4 #1498EB #5BB7F1 #A1D6F7

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Pure Blue (#1492E1) with RGB(20, 146, 225) and HSL(203, 84%, 48%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

cyancorecoolhex-1492e1h-203s-84l-48

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Pure Blue */
color: #1492E1;
background-color: #1492E1;
border-color: #1492E1;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #1492e140;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#1492E1] text-[#1492E1] border-[#1492E1] ring-[#1492E1]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.078, green: 0.573, blue: 0.882)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFF1492E1)

Android XML

<color name="pure_blue">#1492E1</color>

React Native

{ color: '#1492E1' }

Social Media

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About

About Pure Blue

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Pure Blue sits in the cyan family with a core tone, so it holds enough weight for primary UI accents. It reads as calm, credible, and interface-friendly.

Applications

Pure Blue (#1492E1) with RGB(20, 146, 225) and HSL(203, 84%, 48%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Cyan

Tone

Core

Temperature

cool

Keywords

cyan, core, cool, hex-1492e1, h-203, s-84

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#1492E1

RGB

rgb(20, 146, 225)

HSL

hsl(203, 84%, 48%)

HSV

hsv(203, 91%, 88%)

CMYK

cmyk(91%, 35%, 0%, 12%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#031826 #062E46 #0A4C75 #0E6BA4 #1289D3 #2CA3ED #5BB7F1 #80C8F4 #ABDAF8 #D5EDFB

900

#031826

800

#062E46

700

#0A4C75

600

#0E6BA4

500

#1289D3

400

#2CA3ED

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#1492E1 #E16214

Triadic

Open palette

#1492E1 #E11492 #92E114

Analogous

Open palette

#14E1C9 #14C6E1 #1492E1 #145FE1 #142CE1

Split complementary

Open palette

#1492E1 #E1142C #E1C914

Tetradic

Open palette

#1492E1 #C914E1 #E16214 #2CE114

Monochromatic

Open palette

#083D5E #0E6BA4 #1498EB #5BB7F1 #A1D6F7

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#4B4CCE

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#433AC9

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#1ABFBB

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

3.37:1

Only large-text AA passes.

On black

6.23:1

AA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Pure Blue

Closest standard CSS name to #1492E1 for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-cyan-core

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

cyan-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #1492E1 as the core value.

HSL token

203 84% 48%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

Blue Gradient

Similarity score 15

Open

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Pure Blue#1492E1

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Pure Blue

Nearby named colors

About Pure Blue

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Pure Blue
#1492E1