Blue

#5924cc

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

This is Blue, a strong purple at 259 degrees. 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 #5924cc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5924cc

RGB89, 36, 204

HSL259, 70%, 47%

HSV259, 82%, 80%

CMYK56%, 82%, 0%, 20%

Lab33.45, 60.92, -76.68

XYZ15.65, 7.75, 57.8

Decimal5842124

Web safe#6633cc

Pantone2736 C

Shades of blue

#5121ba #491ea8 #421b97 #3a1785 #321473 #2a1161 #230e4f #1b0b3e #13082c #0b051a

Tints of blue

#652fda #7544de #855ae2 #956fe6 #a485e9 #b49aed #c4b0f1 #d4c5f5 #e4daf9 #f4f0fc

Colors that go with blue

Complementary#97cc24 Analogous#2443cc Analogous#ad24cc Triadic#cc5924 Triadic#24cc59 Split complementary#ccad24 Split complementary#43cc24

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 56, 82, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5924cc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

56 82 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

56 79 4 26

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 #5924cc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5924cc; }
.text { color: #5924cc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5924cc; }

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 #5924cc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5924cc 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 #5924cc 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 #5924cc 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 #5924cc come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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 value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.