Steel blue

#266892

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

This is Steel blue, a strong blue at 203 degrees. Deep blues like this anchor serious, established brands. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #266892, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#266892

RGB38, 104, 146

HSL203, 59%, 36%

HSV203, 74%, 57%

CMYK74%, 29%, 0%, 43%

Lab41.83, -6.05, -28.99

XYZ10.94, 12.39, 29.01

Decimal2517138

Web safe#336699

Pantone3015 C

Shades of steel blue

#235f86 #20577a #1c4e6d #194561 #163d55 #133449 #102b3d #0d2331 #091a24 #061118

Tints of steel blue

#2c79aa #338bc3 #4699cf #5ea7d5 #77b4db #8fc2e2 #a7cfe8 #c0dcef #d8eaf5 #f1f7fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#925026 Analogous#269286 Analogous#263292 Triadic#922668 Triadic#689226 Split complementary#922632 Split complementary#928626

Steel blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 74, 29, 0, 43.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #266892 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

74 29 0 43

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

72 31 4 49

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Steel blue in css

Copy #266892 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #266892; }
.text { color: #266892; }
.border { border: 2px solid #266892; }

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 #266892 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #266892 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 #266892 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 #266892 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 #266892 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. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.