Medium blue

#471ea5

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

Medium blue is a deep purple with a weighty cast. 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 #471ea5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#471ea5

RGB71, 30, 165

HSL258, 69%, 38%

HSV258, 82%, 65%

CMYK57%, 82%, 0%, 35%

Lab26.69, 50.88, -64.74

XYZ9.85, 4.98, 36.04

Decimal4660901

Web safe#333399

Pantone2746 C

Shades of medium blue

#411b97 #3b1989 #35167b #2f146d #29115f #230f52 #1d0c44 #170a36 #110728 #0b051a

Tints of medium blue

#5223be #5d27d7 #6f40dc #8259e1 #9572e5 #a88bea #bba4ef #cebef3 #e1d7f8 #f4f0fc

Colors that go with medium blue

Complementary#7ca51e Analogous#1e39a5 Analogous#8a1ea5 Triadic#a5471e Triadic#1ea547 Split complementary#a58b1e Split complementary#38a51e

Medium blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 57, 82, 0, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #471ea5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

57 82 0 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

56 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 #471ea5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #471ea5; }
.text { color: #471ea5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #471ea5; }

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 #471ea5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #471ea5 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 #471ea5 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 #471ea5 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 #471ea5 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.