Indigo

#591069

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 weighty cast. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Indigo color values

Every conversion for #591069, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#591069

RGB89, 16, 105

HSL289, 74%, 24%

HSV289, 85%, 41%

CMYK15%, 85%, 0%, 59%

Lab22.0, 44.35, -34.66

XYZ6.85, 3.51, 13.68

Decimal5836905

Web safe#660066

Pantone2617 C

Shades of indigo

#520f61 #4c0e59 #450c51 #3e0b4a #380a42 #31093a #2a0832 #24062a #1d0522 #17041b

Tints of indigo

#741589 #901aa9 #ab1fca #bf2edf #c94ee4 #d36fe9 #dd8fee #e7aff3 #f0cff8 #faf0fd

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#206910 Analogous#2c1069 Analogous#69104d Triadic#695910 Triadic#106959 Split complementary#4d6910 Split complementary#10692c

Indigo in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 15, 85, 0, 59.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #591069 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 85 0 59

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 82 4 65

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 #591069 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #591069; }
.text { color: #591069; }
.border { border: 2px solid #591069; }

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 #591069 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #591069 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 #591069 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 #591069 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

Here is how the numbers for #591069 are worked out. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.