Midnight blue

#08306f

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. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Midnight blue color values

Every conversion for #08306f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#08306f

RGB8, 48, 111

HSL217, 87%, 23%

HSV217, 93%, 44%

CMYK93%, 57%, 0%, 56%

Lab21.26, 13.71, -40.12

XYZ4.03, 3.31, 15.47

Decimal536687

Web safe#003366

Pantone288 C

Shades of midnight blue

#072c67 #062556 #051e46 #041b3e #041735 #03132d #031025 #020c1d

Tints of midnight blue

#0b3f92 #0d4eb5 #105dd7 #1e6fef #4085f1 #639bf4 #86b2f6 #a9c8f9 #ccdefb #eef4fe

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#6f4708 Analogous#08636f Analogous#14086f Triadic#6f0830 Triadic#306f08 Split complementary#6f1408 Split complementary#636f08

Midnight blue in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 93, 57, 0, 56.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #08306f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

93 57 0 56

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

90 56 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 #08306f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #08306f; }
.text { color: #08306f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #08306f; }

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 #08306f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #08306f 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 #08306f 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 #08306f 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 #08306f come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.