Slate blue

#75619b

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 balanced cast. 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 #75619b, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#75619b

RGB117, 97, 155

HSL261, 23%, 49%

HSV261, 37%, 61%

CMYK25%, 37%, 0%, 39%

Lab45.22, 20.73, -28.69

XYZ17.53, 14.7, 32.92

Decimal7692699

Web safe#666699

Pantone667 C

Shades of slate blue

#6b588d #605080 #564772 #4c3f65 #423657 #372e49 #2d253c #231d2e #181420 #0e0c13

Tints of slate blue

#826fa5 #8f7eae #9b8db7 #a89bc1 #b5aaca #c2b9d3 #cfc8dc #dcd6e6 #e9e5ef #f5f4f8

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#879b61 Analogous#616a9b Analogous#92619b Triadic#9b7561 Triadic#619b75 Split complementary#9b9261 Split complementary#6a9b61

Slate blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 37, 0, 39.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #75619b on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 37 0 39

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 38 4 45

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 #75619b straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #75619b; }
.text { color: #75619b; }
.border { border: 2px solid #75619b; }

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 #75619b against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #75619b 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 #75619b 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 #75619b 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

Every value on this page for #75619b is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.