Slate blue

#7d64cb

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 soft. 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 #7d64cb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#7d64cb

RGB125, 100, 203

HSL255, 50%, 59%

HSV255, 51%, 80%

CMYK38%, 51%, 0%, 20%

Lab49.24, 33.94, -50.28

XYZ23.79, 17.79, 58.68

Decimal8217803

Web safe#6666cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of slate blue

#6c50c4 #5c3eba #5238a6 #483191 #3e2a7d #342369 #2a1c54 #201540 #160f2b #0b0817

Tints of slate blue

#8972d0 #9580d5 #a18ed9 #ad9dde #b8abe3 #c4b9e8 #d0c7ec #dcd5f1 #e8e3f6 #f4f2fb

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#b2cb64 Analogous#647fcb Analogous#b064cb Triadic#cb7d64 Triadic#64cb7d Split complementary#cbb164 Split complementary#7ecb64

Slate blue in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 38, 51, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #7d64cb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

38 51 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

39 51 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 #7d64cb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #7d64cb; }
.text { color: #7d64cb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #7d64cb; }

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 #7d64cb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #7d64cb 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 #7d64cb 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 #7d64cb 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 #7d64cb come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.