Indigo

#641c8a

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. Yellow greens across the wheel wake it up and soft greys let it stay refined.

Indigo color values

Every conversion for #641c8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#641c8a

RGB100, 28, 138

HSL279, 66%, 33%

HSV279, 80%, 54%

CMYK28%, 80%, 0%, 46%

Lab27.78, 49.36, -46.24

XYZ10.26, 5.37, 24.54

Decimal6560906

Web safe#663399

Pantone2597 C

Shades of indigo

#5c1a7f #541773 #4c1568 #43135d #3b1152 #330e46 #2b0c3b #230a30 #1b0725 #120519

Tints of indigo

#7822a5 #8b27c0 #9d32d5 #aa4ddb #b769e0 #c484e6 #d19feb #debaf1 #ebd5f6 #f8f0fc

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#428a1c Analogous#2d1c8a Analogous#8a1c79 Triadic#8a641c Triadic#1c8a64 Split complementary#798a1c Split complementary#1c8a2d

Indigo in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 28, 80, 0, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #641c8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

28 80 0 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

30 78 4 52

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 #641c8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #641c8a; }
.text { color: #641c8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #641c8a; }

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 #641c8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #641c8a 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 #641c8a 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 #641c8a 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 #641c8a 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.