Slate blue

#855cd7

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

This is Slate blue, a strong purple at 260 degrees. 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 #855cd7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#855cd7

RGB133, 92, 215

HSL260, 61%, 60%

HSV260, 57%, 84%

CMYK38%, 57%, 0%, 16%

Lab48.94, 43.67, -57.56

XYZ25.77, 17.55, 66.32

Decimal8740055

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of slate blue

#7446d2 #6432ca #592cb4 #4e279e #432188 #381c71 #2d165b #221145 #170b2f #0c0619

Tints of slate blue

#906bdb #9b7ade #a689e2 #b297e6 #bda6e9 #c8b5ed #d3c4f1 #ded3f4 #e9e2f8 #f4f1fb

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#aed75c Analogous#5c70d7 Analogous#c35cd7 Triadic#d7855c Triadic#5cd785 Split complementary#d7c35c Split complementary#70d75c

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 38, 57, 0, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #855cd7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

38 57 0 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

39 56 4 22

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 #855cd7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #855cd7; }
.text { color: #855cd7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #855cd7; }

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 #855cd7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #855cd7 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 #855cd7 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 #855cd7 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 #855cd7 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. 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.