Medium slate blue

#8a66e7

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 #8a66e7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a66e7

RGB138, 102, 231

HSL257, 73%, 65%

HSV257, 56%, 91%

CMYK40%, 56%, 0%, 9%

Lab52.59, 43.47, -60.71

XYZ29.66, 20.68, 78.03

Decimal9070311

Web safe#9966ff

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium slate blue

#764ce3 #6232df #5221d1 #481db7 #3e199d #331583 #291069 #1f0c4f #150835 #0a041a

Tints of medium slate blue

#9574e9 #9f82eb #aa8fed #b49df0 #bfabf2 #c9b9f4 #d4c6f6 #ded4f8 #e9e2fa #f3f0fd

Colors that go with medium slate blue

Complementary#c3e766 Analogous#6682e7 Analogous#cb66e7 Triadic#e78a66 Triadic#66e78a Split complementary#e7cb66 Split complementary#83e766

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, 56, 0, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a66e7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

40 56 0 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

41 56 4 15

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Medium slate blue in css

Copy #8a66e7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a66e7; }
.text { color: #8a66e7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a66e7; }

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 #8a66e7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a66e7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium slate blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8a66e7 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn medium slate blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8a66e7 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

Every value on this page for #8a66e7 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.