Slate blue

#8352c9

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

Slate blue is a mid purple with a grounded 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.

Slate blue color values

Every conversion for #8352c9, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8352c9

RGB131, 82, 201

HSL265, 52%, 55%

HSV265, 59%, 79%

CMYK35%, 59%, 0%, 21%

Lab45.74, 45.1, -54.7

XYZ22.92, 15.08, 56.96

Decimal8606409

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone2665 C

Shades of slate blue

#753fc3 #6a37b1 #5e319e #532b8b #472577 #3c1f64 #301951 #25133e #190d2b #0e0717

Tints of slate blue

#8e62ce #9a72d3 #a582d8 #b192dd #bca2e2 #c8b2e7 #d3c2ec #ded2f1 #eae1f6 #f5f1fb

Colors that go with slate blue

Complementary#98c952 Analogous#525cc9 Analogous#bf52c9 Triadic#c98352 Triadic#52c983 Split complementary#c9bf52 Split complementary#5cc952

Slate blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 35, 59, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8352c9 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

35 59 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

36 58 4 27

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 #8352c9 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8352c9; }
.text { color: #8352c9; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8352c9; }

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 #8352c9 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8352c9 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 #8352c9 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 #8352c9 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 #8352c9 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.