Medium blue

#451ea5

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

Medium blue 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.

Medium blue color values

Every conversion for #451ea5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#451ea5

RGB69, 30, 165

HSL257, 69%, 38%

HSV257, 82%, 65%

CMYK58%, 82%, 0%, 35%

Lab26.48, 50.64, -65.1

XYZ9.71, 4.91, 36.03

Decimal4529829

Web safe#333399

Pantone2746 C

Shades of medium blue

#3f1b97 #391989 #34167b #2e146d #28115f #220f52 #1c0c44 #160a36 #110728 #0b051a

Tints of medium blue

#5023be #5a27d7 #6d40dc #8059e1 #9372e5 #a78bea #baa4ef #cdbef3 #e0d7f8 #f3f0fc

Colors that go with medium blue

Complementary#7ea51e Analogous#1e3ba5 Analogous#881ea5 Triadic#a5451e Triadic#1ea545 Split complementary#a5881e Split complementary#3ba51e

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 58, 82, 0, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #451ea5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

58 82 0 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

57 79 4 41

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 #451ea5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #451ea5; }
.text { color: #451ea5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #451ea5; }

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 #451ea5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #451ea5 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 #451ea5 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 #451ea5 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

Here is how the numbers for #451ea5 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.