Darker than expected but still lovely for a dinning area rug. Took a few days to straighten out, actually over a week with no dining tables/chairs on top, which I ordered at the same time but came two weeks after the rug arrived despite the estimated time of arrival on website. It's more of a dark gray blue than just any "dark blue" for those who have female gene eyes. Once straighten out, it's nice and colors are evened out (no more dark lines because rug was folded and rolled into a plastic wrap during delivery; dark lines took about a weekish to fade away).