Indigo

#4e237d

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

Indigo is a deep purple with a serious cast. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Indigo color values

Every conversion for #4e237d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e237d

RGB78, 35, 125

HSL269, 56%, 31%

HSV269, 72%, 49%

CMYK38%, 72%, 0%, 51%

Lab24.65, 38.73, -43.3

XYZ7.44, 4.3, 19.84

Decimal5120893

Web safe#663366

Pantone268 C

Shades of indigo

#482073 #411d69 #3b1b5f #351855 #2e154a #281240 #220f36 #1c0c2c #150a22 #0f0718

Tints of indigo

#5e2a97 #6e32b1 #7f3bc8 #9055d0 #a16fd7 #b289de #c3a3e5 #d4bded #e5d7f4 #f6f1fb

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#527d23 Analogous#23257d Analogous#7b237d Triadic#7d4e23 Triadic#237d4e Split complementary#7d7b23 Split complementary#257d23

Indigo in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 38, 72, 0, 51.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e237d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

38 72 0 51

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

39 70 4 57

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.

Indigo in css

Copy #4e237d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e237d; }
.text { color: #4e237d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e237d; }

How indigo looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Indigo and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #4e237d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e237d against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Indigo on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #4e237d sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around indigo? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn indigo into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #4e237d 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 indigo, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #4e237d come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.