Blue

#5e2cdd

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. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Blue color values

Every conversion for #5e2cdd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5e2cdd

RGB94, 44, 221

HSL257, 72%, 52%

HSV257, 80%, 87%

CMYK57%, 80%, 0%, 13%

Lab36.75, 62.77, -81.05

XYZ18.57, 9.4, 69.24

Decimal6171869

Web safe#6633cc

Pantone2736 C

Shades of blue

#5322d0 #4b1ebc #431ba8 #3b1893 #33157f #2b116b #230e57 #1b0b43 #13072f #0a041a

Tints of blue

#6d40e0 #7c53e3 #8b67e6 #9a7aea #a98eed #b8a1f0 #c6b5f3 #d5c9f6 #e4dcf9 #f3f0fd

Colors that go with blue

Complementary#abdd2c Analogous#2c52dd Analogous#b72cdd Triadic#dd5e2c Triadic#2cdd5e Split complementary#ddb72c Split complementary#52dd2c

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 57, 80, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5e2cdd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

57 80 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

56 78 4 19

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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 #5e2cdd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5e2cdd; }
.text { color: #5e2cdd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5e2cdd; }

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 #5e2cdd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5e2cdd 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 #5e2cdd 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 #5e2cdd 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

Here is how the numbers for #5e2cdd are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.