Medium slate blue

#8a60e3

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

Medium slate blue falls in the purple range, mid and strong. 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 #8a60e3, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8a60e3

RGB138, 96, 227

HSL259, 70%, 63%

HSV259, 58%, 89%

CMYK39%, 58%, 0%, 11%

Lab51.05, 45.75, -60.94

XYZ28.53, 19.32, 74.9

Decimal9068771

Web safe#9966cc

Pantone814 C

Shades of medium slate blue

#7847df #652eda #5823c8 #4d1faf #421a96 #37167d #2c1265 #210d4c #160933 #0b051a

Tints of medium slate blue

#956ee6 #9f7de8 #aa8beb #b49aed #bfa8f0 #c9b6f2 #d4c5f5 #dfd3f7 #e9e1fa #f4f0fc

Colors that go with medium slate blue

Complementary#b9e360 Analogous#6077e3 Analogous#cb60e3 Triadic#e38a60 Triadic#60e38a Split complementary#e3cb60 Split complementary#78e360

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 39, 58, 0, 11.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8a60e3 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

39 58 0 11

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

40 57 4 17

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.

Medium slate blue in css

Copy #8a60e3 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8a60e3; }
.text { color: #8a60e3; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8a60e3; }

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 #8a60e3 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8a60e3 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 #8a60e3 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 #8a60e3 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 #8a60e3 is computed, not guessed. 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.