Royal blue

#6c7ece

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

Royal blue sits in the blue band, mid and soft. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Royal blue color values

Every conversion for #6c7ece, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#6c7ece

RGB108, 126, 206

HSL229, 50%, 62%

HSV229, 48%, 81%

CMYK48%, 39%, 0%, 19%

Lab54.62, 15.03, -43.51

XYZ24.79, 22.57, 61.44

Decimal7110350

Web safe#6666cc

Pantone2718 C

Shades of royal blue

#576bc7 #4159c0 #394eac #324596 #2b3b81 #24316c #1d2857 #161e41 #0f142c #080a17

Tints of royal blue

#798ad2 #8795d7 #94a1db #a1ade0 #afb9e4 #bcc4e9 #cad0ed #d7dcf2 #e4e8f6 #f2f3fb

Colors that go with royal blue

Complementary#cebc6c Analogous#6cafce Analogous#8b6cce Triadic#ce6c7e Triadic#7ece6c Split complementary#ce8b6c Split complementary#afce6c

Royal 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 48, 39, 0, 19.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #6c7ece on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

48 39 0 19

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

48 40 4 25

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.

Royal blue in css

Copy #6c7ece straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #6c7ece; }
.text { color: #6c7ece; }
.border { border: 2px solid #6c7ece; }

How royal blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Royal blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #6c7ece against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #6c7ece against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Royal blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #6c7ece sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Four patterns built from #6c7ece 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 royal blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #6c7ece are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.