Exploring the Color #284295

#284295 sits at 226° on the color wheel, placing it in the blue family of the cool half of the spectrum. With 58% saturation and 37% lightness, it reads as a moderately saturated, shadowed tone — a balanced mid-energy presence that sits comfortably alongside other UI tones. Its RGB mix of 40, 66, 149 produces a 9.12:1 contrast ratio against white, which clears WCAG AAA for body text in that pairing.

In RGB space #284295 is a distant relative of CSS teal — about 77 units away from #008080. Designers reach for blue hues at this saturation when the brief calls for a conversational, mid-energy register, and at this lightness when they want a present, comfortable mid-canvas voice. On screen the cool cast tends to pair best with warm neutrals in the 25°-45° range to add life.

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