Cyan

#00FFFF

A blue — trustworthy, calm and stable. The most-used brand colour on the web, blue reads as reliable and clean. Also spelled aqua in CSS — both are identical.

Every format

Contrast

Cyan scores 1.25:1 against white and 16.75:1 against black. It fails WCAG on white — use it for fills and accents, not for text. Check it against another colour →

Shades and tints

A palette built around it

Open Cyan in the palette generator →