Medium slate blue

#855fdf

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

Medium slate blue is a mid purple with a confident 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.

Medium slate blue color values

Every conversion for #855fdf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#855fdf

RGB133, 95, 223

HSL258, 67%, 62%

HSV258, 57%, 87%

CMYK40%, 57%, 0%, 13%

Lab50.1, 44.13, -60.25

XYZ27.08, 18.5, 71.96

Decimal8740831

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium slate blue

#7347da #602fd5 #5527c1 #4a22a9 #401d91 #351879 #2b1361 #200f49 #160a31 #0b051a

Tints of medium slate blue

#906ee2 #9b7ce5 #a68be8 #b199eb #bca8ee #c7b6f0 #d2c5f3 #ded3f6 #e9e2f9 #f4f0fc

Colors that go with medium slate blue

Complementary#b9df5f Analogous#5f79df Analogous#c55fdf Triadic#df855f Triadic#5fdf85 Split complementary#dfc55f Split complementary#79df5f

Medium 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 40, 57, 0, 13.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

40 57 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

41 56 4 19

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.

Medium slate blue in css

Copy #855fdf straight into your stylesheet.

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

How medium slate blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium slate blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #855fdf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #855fdf against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium slate blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #855fdf sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium 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 medium slate blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #855fdf 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 medium slate blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #855fdf 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.