Steel blue

#0997bb

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 192 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 #0997bb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#0997bb

RGB9, 151, 187

HSL192, 91%, 38%

HSV192, 95%, 73%

CMYK95%, 19%, 0%, 27%

Lab57.83, -20.09, -27.96

XYZ20.15, 25.78, 50.93

Decimal628667

Web safe#0099cc

Pantone639 C

Shades of steel blue

#088aab #077e9b #07718c #06647c #05576c #044b5c #043e4d #03313d #02242d #01181d

Tints of steel blue

#0aaed7 #0cc5f3 #28cbf5 #44d2f6 #61d9f7 #7de0f9 #99e7fa #b5edfb #d2f4fd #eefbfe

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#bb2d09 Analogous#09bb86 Analogous#093ebb Triadic#bb0997 Triadic#97bb09 Split complementary#bb093e Split complementary#bb8609

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 95, 19, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #0997bb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

95 19 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

91 21 4 33

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 #0997bb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #0997bb; }
.text { color: #0997bb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #0997bb; }

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 #0997bb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #0997bb 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 #0997bb 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 #0997bb 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 #0997bb come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.