Steel blue

#108aba

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, deep and vivid. Deep blues like this anchor serious, established brands. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #108aba, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#108aba

RGB16, 138, 186

HSL197, 84%, 40%

HSV197, 91%, 73%

CMYK91%, 26%, 0%, 27%

Lab53.85, -13.06, -33.57

XYZ18.17, 21.83, 49.71

Decimal1084090

Web safe#0099cc

Pantone640 C

Shades of steel blue

#0f7eaa #0d739a #0c678b #0b5b7b #094f6b #08445b #06384c #052c3c #04212c #02151c

Tints of steel blue

#129ed5 #19b0eb #34b9ed #4ec2f0 #69cbf2 #84d5f4 #9edef7 #b9e7f9 #d4f0fb #eff9fe

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#ba4010 Analogous#10ba95 Analogous#1035ba Triadic#ba108a Triadic#8aba10 Split complementary#ba1035 Split complementary#ba9510

Steel blue in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 91, 26, 0, 27.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #108aba on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

91 26 0 27

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

88 28 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 #108aba straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #108aba; }
.text { color: #108aba; }
.border { border: 2px solid #108aba; }

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 #108aba against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #108aba 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 #108aba 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 #108aba 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 #108aba are worked out. 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.