Slate blue

#6441ba

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

Slate blue is a mid purple with a confident cast. 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.

Slate blue color values

Every conversion for #6441ba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6441ba

RGB100, 65, 186

HSL257, 48%, 49%

HSV257, 65%, 73%

CMYK46%, 65%, 0%, 27%

Lab37.91, 43.78, -58.79

XYZ16.01, 10.04, 47.55

Decimal6570426

Web safe#6633cc

Pantone2725 C

Shades of slate blue

#5b3baa #523699 #4a3089 #412a79 #382468 #2f1f58 #271948 #1e1337 #150e27 #0c0817

Tints of slate blue

#7251c2 #8063c8 #8f75cf #9d87d5 #ac98db #baaae1 #c9bce8 #d7ceee #e6e0f4 #f4f2fa

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#97ba41 Analogous#415bba Analogous#a041ba Triadic#ba6441 Triadic#41ba64 Split complementary#baa141 Split complementary#5aba41

Slate 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 46, 65, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6441ba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

46 65 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

46 64 4 33

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.

Slate blue in css

Copy #6441ba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6441ba; }
.text { color: #6441ba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6441ba; }

How slate blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Slate blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #6441ba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6441ba against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Slate blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #6441ba sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around slate 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 slate blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #6441ba 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 slate blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #6441ba 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. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.