Medium blue

#332eac

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 rich. Deep blues like this anchor serious, established brands. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Medium blue color values

Every conversion for #332eac, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#332eac

RGB51, 46, 172

HSL242, 58%, 43%

HSV242, 73%, 67%

CMYK70%, 73%, 0%, 33%

Lab28.48, 42.66, -66.08

XYZ9.79, 5.64, 39.6

Decimal3354284

Web safe#333399

Pantone2736 C

Shades of medium blue

#2f2a9d #2a268e #262280 #211e71 #1d1a62 #191653 #141245 #100e36 #0c0a27 #070618

Tints of medium blue

#3934c2 #4944cd #5e5ad3 #736fd9 #8885de #9d9ae4 #b2b0ea #c7c6f0 #dcdbf5 #f1f1fb

Colors that go with medium blue

Complementary#a7ac2e Analogous#2e68ac Analogous#722eac Triadic#ac332e Triadic#2eac33 Split complementary#ac722e Split complementary#68ac2e

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 70, 73, 0, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #332eac on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

70 73 0 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

68 71 4 39

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 #332eac straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #332eac; }
.text { color: #332eac; }
.border { border: 2px solid #332eac; }

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 #332eac against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #332eac 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 #332eac 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 #332eac 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 #332eac 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.