Blue

#4e22ce

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 strong. A mid purple this rich reads creative and a little premium. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Blue color values

Every conversion for #4e22ce, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e22ce

RGB78, 34, 206

HSL255, 72%, 47%

HSV255, 83%, 81%

CMYK62%, 83%, 0%, 19%

Lab32.3, 61.12, -79.78

XYZ14.85, 7.22, 59.0

Decimal5120718

Web safe#6633cc

Pantone2736 C

Shades of blue

#471fbc #401caa #3a1998 #331686 #2c1374 #251062 #1e0d50 #180a3e #11072c #0a041a

Tints of blue

#5a2ddc #6b43e0 #7c58e3 #8d6ee7 #9e83eb #af99ee #c0aff2 #d1c4f5 #e2daf9 #f3f0fc

Colors that go with blue

Complementary#a2ce22 Analogous#224cce Analogous#a422ce Triadic#ce4e22 Triadic#22ce4e Split complementary#cea422 Split complementary#4cce22

Blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 62, 83, 0, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e22ce on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

62 83 0 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

61 80 4 25

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.

Blue in css

Copy #4e22ce straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e22ce; }
.text { color: #4e22ce; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e22ce; }

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 #4e22ce against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e22ce 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 #4e22ce 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 #4e22ce 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 #4e22ce 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.