Crayola crayon color
Crayola Pacific Blue #1CA9C9
Crayola Pacific Blue is shown here as #1CA9C9, the commonly published value for the crayon. It is a light soft blue in the cyan family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.680, chroma 0.118 and hue 218.6°. The nearest CSS named color is deepskyblue (#00BFFF), ΔE2000 10.2 away.
- Relative luminance
- 0.3284
- OKLCH L · C · h
- 0.680 · 0.118 · 218.6
- Best text
- Black 7.56:1
- Hue family
- Cyan
#1CA9C9 color codes
- HEX
#1CA9C9- RGB
rgb(28, 169, 201)- HSL
hsl(191, 76%, 45%)- OKLCH
oklch(0.680 0.118 218.6)- OKLab
oklab(0.680 -0.092 -0.073)- CIELAB (D65)
L* 64.03, a* -23.72, b* -26.22- XYZ (D65)
X 25.20, Y 32.84, Z 60.26- CMYK (naive)
cmyk(86%, 16%, 0%, 21%)
CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.
Crayola is a trademark of Crayola LLC, which this site is not affiliated with. The value is the commonly published sRGB rendering of the crayon, not a Crayola specification.
Legibility
Contrast: is #1CA9C9 accessible?
Black text on it reaches 7.56:1, passing AAA. White text fails at 2.77:1.
WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.
Open the Contrast System-
Black text on it
7.56:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc +51
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White text on it
2.77:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −58
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As text on black
7.56:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc −48
-
As text on white
2.77:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +53
Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1
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For text on white
#00809A 4.61:1
Darkening its OKLCH lightness from 0.68 to 0.56 reaches 4.61:1 on white, keeping the hue.
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For text on black
#1CA9C9 7.56:1
It already reaches 7.56:1 on black, so no change is needed.
Checking another pair? Use the Contrast Checker.
Studio
Adjust #1CA9C9 live
Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.
Scale
Shades and tints of #1CA9C9
Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #1CA9C9 sits at step 400.
Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.
Gamut
How vivid #1CA9C9 can get
At its lightness and hue, sRGB reaches OKLCH chroma 0.123; #1CA9C9 uses 96% of it. Display P3, which many recent phones and laptops show, reaches 0.163 there: 33% more.
- sRGB
- Display P3
- Rec. 2020
- Dominant wavelength
- OKLCH chroma
- 0.118
- sRGB edge
- 0.123
- Display P3 edge
- 0.163
- Rec. 2020 edge
- 0.275
- Dominant wavelength
- 485 nm
- Excitation purity
- 41%
- Chromaticity
- x 0.2131, y 0.2776
- This color#1CA9C9
- Most vivid in sRGB#00AACB
- Most vivid in Display P3oklch(0.680 0.163 218.6)
On a screen without Display P3 the last tile shows the sRGB edge instead.
.accent {
color: #1ca9c9;
}
@media (color-gamut: p3) {
.accent { color: color(display-p3 0 0.668 0.8402); }
}Mixing
Mixing #1CA9C9
Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.
White #FFFFFF
- sRGB50%#8ED4E4
- OKLab50%#A0D4E5
- OKLCH50%#A0D4E5
Black #000000
- sRGB50%#0E5565
- OKLab50%#053F4C
- OKLCH50%#053F4C
Its complement #D67D61
- sRGB50%#799395
- OKLab50%#989898
- OKLCH50%#AD84D0
/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #1ca9c9, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #1ca9c9 50%, white);In use
#1CA9C9 in an interface
A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.
Light page
- Button labelText, 4.5:17.56:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:12.77:1 Fails
- Large headingLarge text, 3:12.77:1 Fails
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:12.77:1 Fails
For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #00809A 4.61:1
Dark page
- Button labelText, 4.5:17.56:1 Passes
- Link and body-size textText, 4.5:16.75:1 Passes
- Large headingLarge text, 3:16.75:1 Passes
- Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:16.75:1 Passes
Color vision
How #1CA9C9 looks with color blindness
Achromatopsia changes it most, ΔE2000 21.5; tritanopia changes it least, 12.4.
Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.
Simulate a whole page What each type sees-
Protanopia
No working red (long-wavelength) cones
#95A4CB ΔE2000 20.0
Distinct
Reads as light muted blue
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Deuteranopia
No working green (medium-wavelength) cones
#7F94C9 ΔE2000 19.7
Distinct
Reads as light muted blue
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Tritanopia
No working blue (short-wavelength) cones
#00B4B3 ΔE2000 12.4
Distinct
Reads as light soft cyan
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Achromatopsia
No cone color vision; lightness only
#9B9B9B ΔE2000 21.5
Distinct
Reads as gray
Pairing check
Checked against its complement, #D67D61. Their lightness contrast is only 1.08:1, so where hue collapses, add a label, icon or pattern.
| Vision | The pair | ΔE2000 | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Normal vision | #1CA9C9 · #D67D61 | 52.2 | Stays distinct |
| Protanopia | #95A4CB · #93895F | 34.2 | Stays distinct |
| Deuteranopia | #7F94C9 · #A99C60 | 41.0 | Stays distinct |
| Tritanopia | #00B4B3 · #E86E76 | 56.9 | Stays distinct |
| Achromatopsia | #9B9B9B · #949494 | 2.3 | Easily confused |
Harmony
Color harmonies for #1CA9C9
Its complement is #D67D61, a light soft red, on the warm side of the wheel.
Hue rotations in OKLCH, mapped into sRGB by trimming chroma so hue and lightness stay put.
Open the Harmony Studio- Base#1CA9C9
- Complement#D67D61
Complementary
Open in Harmony Studio- −30°#02AFA7
- Base#1CA9C9
- +30°#5A9EDE
Analogous
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#1CA9C9
- +120°#C77BB1
- +240°#AB9938
Triadic
Open in Harmony Studio- Base#1CA9C9
- +150°#D6788A
- +210°#C78A3F
Split-complementary
Open in Harmony StudioCode
Design tokens
Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.
:root {
--color-crayola-pacific-blue: #1ca9c9;
}// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'crayola-pacific-blue': '#1ca9c9',
},
},
},
};/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";
@theme {
--color-crayola-pacific-blue: oklch(0.680 0.118 218.6);
}{
"color": {
"crayola-pacific-blue": {
"$type": "color",
"$value": {
"colorSpace": "srgb",
"components": [0.1098, 0.6627, 0.7882],
"hex": "#1ca9c9"
},
"$description": "Crayola Pacific Blue"
}
}
}import SwiftUI
enum Palette {
static let crayolaPacificBlue = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.110, green: 0.663, blue: 0.788, opacity: 1)
}import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color
object Palette {
val CrayolaPacificBlue = Color(0xFF1CA9C9)
}Matches
The nearest match in each system
The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.
Tools
Open #1CA9C9 in the tools
Each opens over this page. More colors live in the Color Library, and every color page is listed on the hub.
- Color InspectorEvery format, its names, contrast and color vision in one panel.
- Contrast SystemBlack and white text on this color, with fixes in both directions.
- Harmony StudioPalettes built from this color, walked to a contrast target if you ask.
- Color Space ConverterThe same color in 34 notations, with its gamut headroom.
- Color Name FinderThe nearest of 1,055 color names by ΔE2000.