Medium blue

#212aae

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

Medium blue is a deep blue that reads serious. Deep blues like this anchor serious, established brands. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Medium blue color values

Every conversion for #212aae, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#212aae

RGB33, 42, 174

HSL236, 68%, 41%

HSV236, 81%, 68%

CMYK81%, 76%, 0%, 32%

Lab26.83, 44.06, -70.02

XYZ9.1, 5.04, 40.54

Decimal2173614

Web safe#333399

Pantone2736 C

Shades of medium blue

#1e269f #1b2390 #191f82 #161c73 #131864 #101555 #0d1146 #0b0d37 #080a29 #05061a

Tints of medium blue

#2630c6 #303bd8 #4852dc #6068e1 #787fe5 #9096ea #a8adef #c0c3f3 #d8daf8 #f0f1fc

Colors that go with medium blue

Complementary#aea521 Analogous#2171ae Analogous#5f21ae Triadic#ae212a Triadic#2aae21 Split complementary#ae5f21 Split complementary#71ae21

Medium 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 81, 76, 0, 32.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #212aae on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

81 76 0 32

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

79 74 4 38

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.

Medium blue in css

Copy #212aae straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #212aae; }
.text { color: #212aae; }
.border { border: 2px solid #212aae; }

How medium blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #212aae against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #212aae against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #212aae sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium 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 medium blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #212aae 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 medium blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #212aae 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.