Steel blue

#037293

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

This is Steel blue, a vivid teal at 194 degrees. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #037293, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#037293

RGB3, 114, 147

HSL194, 96%, 29%

HSV194, 98%, 58%

CMYK98%, 22%, 0%, 42%

Lab44.46, -14.6, -25.52

XYZ11.32, 14.16, 29.74

Decimal225939

Web safe#006699

Pantone307 C

Shades of steel blue

#036987 #03607c #025770 #024e64 #024558 #023c4d #013241 #012935 #01202a #01171e

Tints of steel blue

#048cb5 #04a6d6 #05c0f8 #24c9fb #46d2fb #67dafc #89e2fd #aaeafd #ccf3fe #eefbff

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#932403 Analogous#03936c Analogous#032a93 Triadic#930372 Triadic#729303 Split complementary#93032a Split complementary#936c03

Steel blue in print

The saturation is high, which is where rgb and cmyk drift apart, so a printed proof is worth it. The cmyk build is 98, 22, 0, 42.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #037293 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

98 22 0 42

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

94 24 4 48

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Steel blue in css

Copy #037293 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #037293; }
.text { color: #037293; }
.border { border: 2px solid #037293; }

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 #037293 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #037293 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Steel blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #037293 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn steel blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #037293 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

The figures for #037293 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.