Indigo

#45136f

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

Indigo falls in the purple range, deep and strong. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Indigo color values

Every conversion for #45136f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#45136f

RGB69, 19, 111

HSL273, 71%, 25%

HSV273, 83%, 44%

CMYK38%, 83%, 0%, 56%

Lab19.55, 40.82, -42.69

XYZ5.56, 2.88, 15.3

Decimal4526959

Web safe#330066

Pantone2745 C

Shades of indigo

#3a105e #350f56 #300d4d #2b0c45 #250a3c #200934 #1b072b #160623 #10041a

Tints of indigo

#58188e #6b1ead #7f23cc #9136dd #a255e2 #b374e7 #c493ed #d5b2f2 #e6d1f7 #f7f0fc

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#3d6f13 Analogous#17136f Analogous#6f136b Triadic#6f4513 Triadic#136f45 Split complementary#6b6f13 Split complementary#136f17

Indigo in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 38, 83, 0, 56.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #45136f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

38 83 0 56

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

39 80 4 62

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 #45136f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #45136f; }
.text { color: #45136f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #45136f; }

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 #45136f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #45136f 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 #45136f 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 #45136f 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 #45136f 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.