Indigo

#5d1880

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

Indigo falls in the purple range, deep and strong. 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 #5d1880, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5d1880

RGB93, 24, 128

HSL280, 68%, 30%

HSV280, 81%, 50%

CMYK27%, 81%, 0%, 50%

Lab25.38, 47.3, -43.91

XYZ8.74, 4.54, 20.84

Decimal6101120

Web safe#660099

Pantone2607 C

Shades of indigo

#561676 #4e146c #471261 #3f1057 #380e4d #300c43 #290b38 #22092e #1a0724 #13051a

Tints of indigo

#721d9d #8723b9 #9b28d6 #a944dc #b661e1 #c37de7 #d09aec #deb7f1 #ebd3f7 #f8f0fc

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#3b8018 Analogous#291880 Analogous#80186f Triadic#805d18 Triadic#18805d Split complementary#6f8018 Split complementary#188029

Indigo in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 27, 81, 0, 50.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5d1880 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

27 81 0 50

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

29 79 4 56

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 #5d1880 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5d1880; }
.text { color: #5d1880; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5d1880; }

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 #5d1880 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5d1880 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 #5d1880 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 #5d1880 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 #5d1880 are worked out. 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.