Slate blue

#484eb3

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

Slate blue sits in the blue band, mid and soft. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Slate blue color values

Every conversion for #484eb3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#484eb3

RGB72, 78, 179

HSL237, 43%, 49%

HSV237, 60%, 70%

CMYK60%, 56%, 0%, 30%

Lab37.99, 28.39, -54.65

XYZ13.53, 10.08, 43.88

Decimal4738739

Web safe#3366cc

Pantone2728 C

Shades of slate blue

#4247a3 #3b4094 #353984 #2f3374 #282c64 #222555 #1c1e45 #151735 #0f1026 #090a16

Tints of slate blue

#575dbc #696ec3 #7a7ec9 #8b8fd0 #9ca0d7 #adb0de #bfc1e5 #d0d1ec #e1e2f3 #f2f3fa

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#b3ad48 Analogous#4884b3 Analogous#7748b3 Triadic#b3484e Triadic#4eb348 Split complementary#b37748 Split complementary#84b348

Slate 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 60, 56, 0, 30.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #484eb3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

60 56 0 30

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

59 56 4 36

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.

Slate blue in css

Copy #484eb3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #484eb3; }
.text { color: #484eb3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #484eb3; }

How slate blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Slate blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #484eb3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #484eb3 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Slate blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #484eb3 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around slate 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 slate blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #484eb3 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 slate blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #484eb3 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.