Steel blue

#2e859d

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 teal at 193 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 #2e859d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#2e859d

RGB46, 133, 157

HSL193, 55%, 40%

HSV193, 71%, 62%

CMYK71%, 15%, 0%, 38%

Lab51.6, -17.62, -20.32

XYZ15.6, 19.79, 34.9

Decimal3048861

Web safe#339999

Pantone314 C

Shades of steel blue

#2a7a90 #266e82 #226375 #1e5868 #1a4d5a #17414d #133640 #0f2b32 #0b1f25 #071418

Tints of steel blue

#3598b3 #3ea9c7 #55b3cd #6bbdd4 #81c7da #98d1e1 #aedbe7 #c4e5ee #dbeff4 #f1f9fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#9d462e Analogous#2e9d7d Analogous#2e4e9d Triadic#9d2e85 Triadic#859d2e Split complementary#9d2e4e Split complementary#9d7e2e

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 71, 15, 0, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #2e859d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

71 15 0 38

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

69 18 4 44

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 #2e859d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #2e859d; }
.text { color: #2e859d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #2e859d; }

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 #2e859d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #2e859d 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 #2e859d 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 #2e859d 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 #2e859d are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.