Slate blue

#4e4cba

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

Slate blue is a mid blue that reads balanced. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Slate blue color values

Every conversion for #4e4cba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e4cba

RGB78, 76, 186

HSL241, 44%, 51%

HSV241, 59%, 73%

CMYK58%, 59%, 0%, 27%

Lab38.43, 33.08, -58.02

XYZ14.59, 10.33, 47.68

Decimal5131450

Web safe#6633cc

Pantone2728 C

Shades of slate blue

#4442ac #3e3c9c #37368b #312f7a #2a296a #232259 #1d1c48 #161537 #0f0f27 #090916

Tints of slate blue

#5e5dc0 #6f6dc7 #7f7ecd #908ed4 #a09fda #b1b0e0 #c1c0e7 #d1d1ed #e2e2f4 #f2f2fa

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#b8ba4c Analogous#4c81ba Analogous#854cba Triadic#ba4e4c Triadic#4cba4e Split complementary#ba854c Split complementary#81ba4c

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 58, 59, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e4cba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

58 59 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

57 58 4 33

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Slate blue in css

Copy #4e4cba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e4cba; }
.text { color: #4e4cba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e4cba; }

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 #4e4cba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e4cba against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Slate blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #4e4cba 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn slate blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #4e4cba 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

Here is how the numbers for #4e4cba are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.