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Cerulean Tone Clear
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Cerulean Tone Clear

Blue · Hue 190
Hex
#62BED0
RGB
rgb(98, 190, 208)
HSL
hsl(190, 54%, 60%)
CMYK
cmyk(53%, 9%, 0%, 18%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
2.1:1Fail
on black
9.8:1AA
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About this color

Cerulean Tone Clear (#62BED0) belongs to the blue family — hue 190°, 54% saturation, 60% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-cerulean-tone-clear: #62BED0;
  --colorarchive-cerulean-tone-clear-hsl: hsl(190, 54%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-cerulean-tone-clear-rgb: rgb(98, 190, 208);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

ProfessionalReliableFocused
Common in

Banking · Insurance · Enterprise Software

Pairs well with

White for clean authority, light orange for warm contrast, dark navy for depth

Design tip

The backbone of business interfaces. Use for primary actions and navigation. Blue links are the web's universal convention.

Cultural context ▶

Blue is the world's most popular color. It represents trust, competence, and stability across virtually all cultures.

Color Origins

Blue family

The most-loved color on the planet, and the most overused.

Heritage

Blue is the rarest pigment in the natural world — and so, historically, the most expensive. Ultramarine, ground from lapis lazuli mined only in Afghanistan, was worth more than gold in Renaissance Europe; Vermeer's bills were enormous because of how much he used. Egyptian blue (the first synthetic pigment, ~3000 BCE) was lost for centuries and rediscovered in the 19th. Prussian blue (1704) democratized blue overnight; Yves Klein's IKB (1960) re-aristocratized it.

Across cultures

In ancient Egypt blue was the color of the Nile and the heavens — sacred, protective. In China blue-and-white porcelain (qinghua) defined export ceramics for 600 years. In Mediterranean traditions blue wards off the evil eye. In post-WWII America, blue became the corporate default ('IBM blue'); in Japan, indigo (ai) is the centuries-old workwear dye that became the ground tone of an entire textile tradition. Across the world blue is consistently rated the most-liked color — sometimes by 35% margins.

In the wild

Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. IBM's blue dates to 1947. Levi's blue is the natural color of indigo on cotton. Twitter Blue (#1DA1F2) defined social-media blue for a decade before X scrapped it. Pixar's Up famously runs on a single complementary palette built on blue. The blue checkmark, the blue link, the blue 'send' button — blue has become the default color of digital trust, to the point of being a UX cliché.

How it reads

Blue recedes — physically, the eye focuses blue light slightly behind the retina, which makes blue elements feel deep or distant. It reads as trustworthy, calm, corporate, and (at the cool end) cold. Light blues read airy and clinical; mid blues are the default for tech and finance; deep blues read as luxurious or naval. The omnipresence of blue in software is real: most enterprise UIs reach for it because it offends the fewest stakeholders, which is also the reason it can feel like the absence of a real choice.

This particular tone

A confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where most identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The clear, mid-saturation register is the most common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #62BED0.

  • Slackaccent
    Slack Blue · #36C5F0
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Redditsecondary
    Periwinkle · #7193FF
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #62BED0.

  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • MoroccoChefchaouen Blue
    #7BAFD4 · Painted medina walls (Rif mountains)
    →
  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Cerulean Silk Clear
#81CBD9 · hsl(190, 54%, 68%)
Darker companion
Cerulean Radiant Clear
#4AB4C9 · hsl(190, 54%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Ruby Tone Clear
#D07462 · hsl(10, 54%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Sapphire Tone Clear
#6299D0 · hsl(210, 54%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Lagoon Tone Clear
#62D0BE · hsl(170, 54%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Peony Tone Clear
#D062BE · hsl(310, 54%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Honey Tone Clear
#BED062 · hsl(70, 54%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Garnet Tone Clear
#D06287 · hsl(340, 54%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Apricot Tone Clear
#D0AB62 · hsl(40, 54%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Cerulean Tone Clear #62BED0
Lighter companion: Cerulean Silk Clear #81CBD9
Darker companion: Cerulean Radiant Clear #4AB4C9
Complementary counterpoint: Ruby Tone Clear #D07462
Analogous lead: Sapphire Tone Clear #6299D0
Analogous echo: Lagoon Tone Clear #62D0BE
Triadic +120°: Peony Tone Clear #D062BE
Triadic +240°: Honey Tone Clear #BED062
Split-comp +150°: Garnet Tone Clear #D06287
Split-comp +210°: Apricot Tone Clear #D0AB62

Compare

See how Cerulean Tone Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsCerulean Silk ClearvsCerulean Radiant ClearvsRuby Tone ClearvsSapphire Tone ClearvsLagoon Tone ClearvsPeony Tone Clear

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Cerulean Radiant Clear
#4AB4C9 · hsl(190, 54%, 54%)
Nearby match
Cerulean Silk Clear
#81CBD9 · hsl(190, 54%, 68%)
Nearby match
Cerulean Core Clear
#38A6BC · hsl(190, 54%, 48%)
Nearby match
Cerulean Tone Soft
#76B0BC · hsl(190, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cerulean Tone Vivid
#4ECBE4 · hsl(190, 74%, 60%)
Nearby match
Aqua Tone Clear
#62D0D0 · hsl(180, 54%, 60%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AAA7.4:1
Ruby Ink Faint
#272120
AAA7.5:1
Ruby Ink Muted
#2A1F1D
AAA7.5:1
Ruby Ink Dust
#2D1E1A
AAA7.5:1
Ruby Ink Soft
#301C18
AAA7.6:1
Ruby Ink Clear
#371710
AAA7.6:1
Ruby Ink Vivid
#3E1209

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#8E86CB
Protanopia
#9394CC
Tritanopia
#69C8C8
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