Indigo

#5e1a84

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

Indigo falls in the purple range, deep and strong. Deep purples like this carry luxury and craft. Pair it with warm yellows for contrast, or with charcoal for a moody scheme.

Indigo color values

Every conversion for #5e1a84, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#5e1a84

RGB94, 26, 132

HSL278, 67%, 31%

HSV278, 80%, 52%

CMYK29%, 80%, 0%, 48%

Lab26.11, 47.64, -45.23

XYZ9.15, 4.78, 22.27

Decimal6167172

Web safe#663399

Pantone267 C

Shades of indigo

#561879 #4f166f #471464 #401259 #38104f #310d44 #290b39 #21092f #1a0724 #12051a

Tints of indigo

#721fa0 #8625bc #992dd6 #a749db #b465e1 #c280e6 #cf9cec #ddb8f1 #ead4f7 #f8f0fc

Colors that go with indigo

Complementary#40841a Analogous#291a84 Analogous#841a75 Triadic#845e1a Triadic#1a845e Split complementary#75841a Split complementary#1a8429

Indigo in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 29, 80, 0, 48.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #5e1a84 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

29 80 0 48

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

31 78 4 54

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.

Indigo in css

Copy #5e1a84 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #5e1a84; }
.text { color: #5e1a84; }
.border { border: 2px solid #5e1a84; }

How indigo looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Indigo and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #5e1a84 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #5e1a84 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Indigo on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #5e1a84 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around indigo? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn indigo into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #5e1a84 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 indigo, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #5e1a84 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.