Blue

#757289

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

Blue sits in the blue band, mid and grey. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Blue color values

Every conversion for #757289, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#757289

RGB117, 114, 137

HSL248, 9%, 49%

HSV248, 17%, 54%

CMYK15%, 17%, 0%, 46%

Lab49.04, 6.11, -12.15

XYZ17.87, 17.62, 26.13

Decimal7697033

Web safe#666699

Pantone5285 C

Shades of blue

#6b687d #605e71 #565465 #4c4a59 #42404d #373641 #2d2c35 #232229 #19181d #0e0e11

Tints of blue

#827f94 #8e8c9f #9b99aa #a8a6b5 #b5b3c0 #c2c1cb #cfced6 #dcdbe1 #e9e8ec #f5f5f7

Colors that go with blue

Complementary#868972 Analogous#727b89 Analogous#817289 Triadic#897572 Triadic#728975 Split complementary#898172 Split complementary#7b8972

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 15, 17, 0, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #757289 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

15 17 0 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

18 20 4 52

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.

Blue in css

Copy #757289 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #757289; }
.text { color: #757289; }
.border { border: 2px solid #757289; }

How blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #757289 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #757289 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #757289 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #757289 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 blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #757289 is computed, not guessed. 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.