Slate blue

#8650de

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 263 degrees. 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 #8650de, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8650de

RGB134, 80, 222

HSL263, 68%, 59%

HSV263, 64%, 87%

CMYK40%, 64%, 0%, 13%

Lab47.08, 52.2, -64.55

XYZ25.88, 16.08, 70.85

Decimal8802526

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2665 C

Shades of slate blue

#7639da #6827d0 #5c23ba #511fa3 #461a8c #3a1675 #2f125e #240d47 #180931 #0d051a

Tints of slate blue

#9160e1 #9c70e4 #a780e7 #b290ea #bda0ed #c8b0f0 #d3c0f3 #ded0f6 #eae0f9 #f5f0fc

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#a8de50 Analogous#5061de Analogous#cd50de Triadic#de8650 Triadic#50de86 Split complementary#decd50 Split complementary#61de50

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, 64, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8650de on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

40 64 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

41 63 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.

Slate blue in css

Copy #8650de straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8650de; }
.text { color: #8650de; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8650de; }

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 #8650de against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8650de 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 #8650de 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 #8650de 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 #8650de 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.