Midnight blue

#182d51

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, dark and soft. Near navy blues this dark carry authority in print. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Midnight blue color values

Every conversion for #182d51, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#182d51

RGB24, 45, 81

HSL218, 54%, 21%

HSV218, 70%, 32%

CMYK70%, 44%, 0%, 68%

Lab18.65, 5.08, -24.55

XYZ2.8, 2.67, 8.15

Decimal1584465

Web safe#003366

Pantone654 C

Shades of midnight blue

#162a4b #152746 #132340 #11203a #0f1d34 #0e1a2f #0c1729 #0a1323 #09101d #070d18

Tints of midnight blue

#213e6f #2a4e8d #335fab #3e70c6 #5c86cf #7a9cd8 #98b2e0 #b5c9e9 #d3dff2 #f1f5fb

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#513c18 Analogous#184a51 Analogous#1f1851 Triadic#51182d Triadic#2d5118 Split complementary#512018 Split complementary#4a5118

Midnight blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 70, 44, 0, 68.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #182d51 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

70 44 0 68

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

68 44 4 74

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Midnight blue in css

Copy #182d51 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #182d51; }
.text { color: #182d51; }
.border { border: 2px solid #182d51; }

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 #182d51 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #182d51 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Midnight blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #182d51 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn midnight blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #182d51 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 #182d51 are worked out. 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.