Midnight blue

#033578

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for midnight blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Midnight blue is a deep blue that reads rich. Deep blues like this anchor serious, established brands. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Midnight blue color values

Every conversion for #033578, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#033578

RGB3, 53, 120

HSL214, 95%, 24%

HSV214, 98%, 47%

CMYK98%, 56%, 0%, 53%

Lab23.41, 13.66, -42.38

XYZ4.7, 3.92, 18.28

Decimal210296

Web safe#003366

Pantone288 C

Shades of midnight blue

#03316f #032d66 #02295d #022554 #02214b #021d42 #011939 #011530 #011127 #010d1e

Tints of midnight blue

#04459c #0555c0 #0665e4 #1577f9 #3a8cfa #5ea1fb #82b6fc #a6cbfd #cae0fe #eef5ff

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#784603 Analogous#036f78 Analogous#0c0378 Triadic#780335 Triadic#357803 Split complementary#780c03 Split complementary#6f7803

Midnight blue in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 98, 56, 0, 53.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #033578 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

98 56 0 53

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

94 56 4 59

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Midnight blue in css

Copy #033578 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #033578; }
.text { color: #033578; }
.border { border: 2px solid #033578; }

How midnight blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Midnight blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #033578 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #033578 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Midnight blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #033578 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around midnight blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn midnight blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #033578 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from midnight blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #033578 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.