Blue

#4e02de

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

Blue is a deep purple with a serious cast. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Blue color values

Every conversion for #4e02de, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e02de

RGB78, 2, 222

HSL261, 98%, 44%

HSV261, 99%, 87%

CMYK65%, 99%, 0%, 13%

Lab31.66, 72.62, -90.09

XYZ16.35, 6.94, 69.58

Decimal5112542

Web safe#6600cc

Pantone2736 C

Shades of blue

#4702cb #4102b8 #3a01a4 #330191 #2c017e #26016b #1f0158 #180145 #110031 #0b001e

Tints of blue

#5702f9 #6819fd #7933fd #8a4efd #9c68fe #ad83fe #bf9efe #d0b8fe #e2d3ff #f3edff

Colors that go with blue

Complementary#92de02 Analogous#0224de Analogous#bc02de Triadic#de4e02 Triadic#02de4e Split complementary#debc02 Split complementary#24de02

Blue in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 65, 99, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e02de on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

65 99 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

64 95 4 19

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 #4e02de straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e02de; }
.text { color: #4e02de; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e02de; }

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 #4e02de against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e02de 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 #4e02de 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 #4e02de 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

The figures for #4e02de come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.