Blue

#4606ff

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

Blue falls in the purple range, mid and vivid. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Blue color values

Every conversion for #4606ff, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4606ff

RGB70, 6, 255

HSL255, 100%, 51%

HSV255, 98%, 100%

CMYK73%, 98%, 0%, 0%

Lab35.31, 79.39, -102.78

XYZ20.64, 8.65, 95.19

Decimal4589311

Web safe#3300ff

Pantone2736 C

Shades of blue

#3d00ee #3700d7 #3100c0 #2b00a9 #250092 #20007b #1a0064 #14004d #0e0036 #08001f

Tints of blue

#571dff #6834ff #7a4bff #8b62ff #9c7aff #ad91ff #bea8ff #cfbfff #e1d6ff #f2edff

Colors that go with blue

Complementary#bfff06 Analogous#0643ff Analogous#c206ff Triadic#ff4606 Triadic#06ff46 Split complementary#ffc206 Split complementary#43ff06

Blue in print

It is saturated enough that the cmyk build can shift slightly from screen to press, so proof it. The cmyk build is 73, 98, 0, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4606ff on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

73 98 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

71 94 4 6

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Blue in css

Copy #4606ff straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4606ff; }
.text { color: #4606ff; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4606ff; }

How blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #4606ff against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4606ff against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #4606ff sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around 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 blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #4606ff 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 blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #4606ff are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.