Midnight blue

#3a207f

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

Midnight blue is a deep purple with a serious cast. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Midnight blue color values

Every conversion for #3a207f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#3a207f

RGB58, 32, 127

HSL256, 60%, 31%

HSV256, 75%, 50%

CMYK54%, 75%, 0%, 50%

Lab21.82, 37.1, -49.29

XYZ6.09, 3.46, 20.43

Decimal3809407

Web safe#333366

Pantone273 C

Shades of midnight blue

#351d75 #311b6a #2c1860 #271656 #23134c #1e1041 #190e37 #150b2d #100923 #0b0618

Tints of midnight blue

#46279a #522db4 #6036cc #7551d3 #8a6cda #9f86e1 #b4a1e7 #c9bcee #ded6f5 #f4f1fb

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#657f20 Analogous#20357f Analogous#6a207f Triadic#7f3a20 Triadic#207f3a Split complementary#7f6a20 Split complementary#357f20

Midnight blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 54, 75, 0, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #3a207f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

54 75 0 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

54 73 4 56

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 #3a207f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #3a207f; }
.text { color: #3a207f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #3a207f; }

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 #3a207f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #3a207f 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 #3a207f 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 #3a207f 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 #3a207f 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.