Midnight blue

#2c1379

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

This is Midnight blue, a strong purple at 255 degrees. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Midnight blue color values

Every conversion for #2c1379, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#2c1379

RGB44, 19, 121

HSL255, 73%, 27%

HSV255, 84%, 47%

CMYK64%, 84%, 0%, 53%

Lab17.37, 39.96, -52.83

XYZ4.72, 2.38, 18.3

Decimal2888569

Web safe#330066

Pantone273 C

Shades of midnight blue

#251066 #220f5d #1e0d53 #1b0c4a #170a40 #140937 #10072d #0d0624 #0a041a

Tints of midnight blue

#371897 #421db6 #4d21d4 #6239e0 #7a57e5 #9276e9 #aa94ee #c2b3f3 #dbd1f8 #f3f0fd

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#607913 Analogous#132d79 Analogous#5f1379 Triadic#792c13 Triadic#13792c Split complementary#795f13 Split complementary#2d7913

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 64, 84, 0, 53.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #2c1379 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

64 84 0 53

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

63 81 4 59

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #2c1379 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #2c1379; }
.text { color: #2c1379; }
.border { border: 2px solid #2c1379; }

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 #2c1379 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #2c1379 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 #2c1379 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 #2c1379 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 #2c1379 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.