i've tried multiple combinations of rbg's to get a truly accurate blue color to replicate windows 7, but none of them ever look quite right.  they're either instead purple, or a way too bright shade of blue that should be darker, but always show up as a sort of bright neon blue.

 

does anyone know the real blue color code or rgb combo to achieve a truly accurate windows 7 blue for the taskbar & start menu... as well as aero glass?  would be much appreciated.

Take a screen capture and load it in IrfanView. Click and hold on the color of interest and read the RGB values in the title bar.

9 hours ago, jumper said:

Take a screen capture and load it in IrfanView. Click and hold on the color of interest and read the RGB values in the title bar.
 

great idea.  i'll give it a shot.

The color microsoft blue with hexadecimal color code #00a2ed is a shade of cyan. In the RGB color model #00a2ed is comprised of 0% red, 63.53% green and 92.94% blue. In the HSL color space #00a2ed has a hue of 199° (degrees), 100% saturation and 46% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 479.43 nm.

• HEX #00a2ed
• RGB 0, 162, 237
• HSL 199, 100, 46

Looks like this: 

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