Indigo

#3f1b8e

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

This is Indigo, a strong purple at 259 degrees. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Indigo color values

Every conversion for #3f1b8e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#3f1b8e

RGB63, 27, 142

HSL259, 68%, 33%

HSV259, 81%, 56%

CMYK56%, 81%, 0%, 44%

Lab22.98, 44.77, -56.78

XYZ7.32, 3.79, 25.94

Decimal4135822

Web safe#333399

Pantone2746 C

Shades of indigo

#3a1982 #351777 #30146b #2a125f #251054 #200e48 #1b0c3d #160931 #110725 #0b051a

Tints of indigo

#4b20a9 #5725c4 #6632d8 #7a4ddd #8e68e2 #a383e7 #b79fed #cbbaf2 #e0d5f7 #f4f0fc

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#6a8e1b Analogous#1b308e Analogous#791b8e Triadic#8e3f1b Triadic#1b8e3f Split complementary#8e791b Split complementary#308e1b

Indigo in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 56, 81, 0, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #3f1b8e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

56 81 0 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

56 79 4 50

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.

Indigo in css

Copy #3f1b8e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #3f1b8e; }
.text { color: #3f1b8e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #3f1b8e; }

How indigo looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Indigo and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #3f1b8e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #3f1b8e against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Indigo on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #3f1b8e sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around indigo? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn indigo into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #3f1b8e 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 indigo, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #3f1b8e are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.