Steel blue

#32688d

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 soft. 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 #32688d, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#32688d

RGB50, 104, 141

HSL204, 48%, 37%

HSV204, 65%, 55%

CMYK65%, 26%, 0%, 45%

Lab42.0, -5.81, -25.69

XYZ11.07, 12.5, 27.03

Decimal3303565

Web safe#336699

Pantone3015 C

Shades of steel blue

#2e5f81 #2a5775 #254e69 #21455e #1d3c52 #193446 #152b3a #10222e #0c1922 #081117

Tints of steel blue

#3a78a3 #4289b9 #5697c3 #6ca5cb #83b2d3 #99c0db #afcee3 #c5dbeb #dce9f2 #f2f7fa

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#8d5732 Analogous#328d85 Analogous#323a8d Triadic#8d3268 Triadic#688d32 Split complementary#8d323a Split complementary#8d8532

Steel blue in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 65, 26, 0, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #32688d on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

65 26 0 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

64 28 4 51

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 #32688d straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #32688d; }
.text { color: #32688d; }
.border { border: 2px solid #32688d; }

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 #32688d against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #32688d 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 #32688d 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 #32688d 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 #32688d are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.