Midnight blue

#3c225f

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

Midnight blue falls in the purple range, deep and soft. 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 #3c225f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#3c225f

RGB60, 34, 95

HSL266, 47%, 25%

HSV266, 64%, 37%

CMYK37%, 64%, 0%, 63%

Lab19.77, 26.74, -31.92

XYZ4.5, 2.93, 11.15

Decimal3940959

Web safe#333366

Pantone2695 C

Shades of midnight blue

#331d51 #2e1a49 #2a1842 #25153b #211234 #1c102c #170d25 #130b1e #0e0817

Tints of midnight blue

#4d2c7a #5e3594 #6f3faf #8151c1 #946cca #a887d4 #bba2de #cfbce7 #e2d7f1 #f5f2fa

Colors that go with midnight blue

Complementary#455f22 Analogous#22265f Analogous#5a225f Triadic#5f3c22 Triadic#225f3c Split complementary#5f5b22 Split complementary#265f22

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 37, 64, 0, 63.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #3c225f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

37 64 0 63

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

38 63 4 69

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 #3c225f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #3c225f; }
.text { color: #3c225f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #3c225f; }

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 #3c225f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #3c225f 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 #3c225f 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 #3c225f 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 #3c225f are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.