Steel blue

#557395

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

Steel blue sits in the blue band, mid and muted. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #557395, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#557395

RGB85, 115, 149

HSL212, 27%, 46%

HSV212, 43%, 58%

CMYK43%, 23%, 0%, 42%

Lab47.45, -1.48, -21.88

XYZ15.3, 16.36, 30.79

Decimal5600149

Web safe#666699

Pantone646 C

Shades of steel blue

#4e6988 #465f7b #3f556e #374b61 #304154 #293747 #212d3a #1a232d #131920 #0b0f13

Tints of steel blue

#6080a4 #708dad #819ab7 #91a7c0 #a1b4ca #b2c1d3 #c2cfdc #d3dce6 #e3e9ef #f4f6f9

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#957755 Analogous#559395 Analogous#575595 Triadic#955573 Triadic#739555 Split complementary#955755 Split complementary#939555

Steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 43, 23, 0, 42.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #557395 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

43 23 0 42

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

44 25 4 48

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.

Steel blue in css

Copy #557395 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #557395; }
.text { color: #557395; }
.border { border: 2px solid #557395; }

How steel blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Steel blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #557395 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #557395 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Steel blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #557395 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn steel blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #557395 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 steel blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #557395 are worked out. 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.