Slate blue

#704fcd

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

Slate 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.

Slate blue color values

Every conversion for #704fcd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#704fcd

RGB112, 79, 205

HSL256, 56%, 56%

HSV256, 61%, 80%

CMYK45%, 61%, 0%, 20%

Lab43.43, 43.7, -60.85

XYZ20.5, 13.44, 59.27

Decimal7360461

Web safe#6666cc

Pantone2725 C

Shades of slate blue

#603bc7 #5634b6 #4c2ea2 #43288e #3a237a #301d67 #271853 #1e123f #150c2c #0b0718

Tints of slate blue

#7d5fd2 #8a6fd6 #9880db #a590df #b2a0e4 #bfb0e9 #ccc0ed #d9d1f2 #e7e1f6 #f4f1fb

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#accd4f Analogous#4f6dcd Analogous#af4fcd Triadic#cd704f Triadic#4fcd70 Split complementary#cdaf4f Split complementary#6dcd4f

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 45, 61, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #704fcd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

45 61 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

45 60 4 26

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 #704fcd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #704fcd; }
.text { color: #704fcd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #704fcd; }

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 #704fcd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #704fcd 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 #704fcd 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 #704fcd 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

Here is how the numbers for #704fcd are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.