Midnight blue

#041d6f

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

Midnight blue sits in the blue band, deep and vivid. Deep blues like this anchor serious, established brands. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Midnight blue color values

Every conversion for #041d6f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#041d6f

RGB4, 29, 111

HSL226, 93%, 23%

HSV226, 96%, 44%

CMYK96%, 74%, 0%, 56%

Lab15.76, 27.18, -49.13

XYZ3.36, 2.05, 15.26

Decimal269679

Web safe#003366

Pantone662 C

Shades of midnight blue

#03195f #03144e #031246 #02103e #020e36 #020c2e #010a26 #01081e

Tints of midnight blue

#052793 #0730b8 #083adc #1348f7 #3865f8 #5c81f9 #819dfa #a5b9fc #c9d5fd #eef2fe

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#6f5604 Analogous#04526f Analogous#20046f Triadic#6f041d Triadic#1d6f04 Split complementary#6f2104 Split complementary#536f04

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 96, 74, 0, 56.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #041d6f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

96 74 0 56

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

92 72 4 62

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 #041d6f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #041d6f; }
.text { color: #041d6f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #041d6f; }

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 #041d6f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #041d6f 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 #041d6f 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 #041d6f 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

Here is how the numbers for #041d6f are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.