Steel blue

#327ea5

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

Steel blue is a deep blue that reads serious. 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 #327ea5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#327ea5

RGB50, 126, 165

HSL200, 53%, 42%

HSV200, 70%, 65%

CMYK70%, 24%, 0%, 35%

Lab49.88, -10.39, -27.61

XYZ15.57, 18.32, 38.31

Decimal3309221

Web safe#336699

Pantone307 C

Shades of steel blue

#2e7397 #296889 #255e7b #21536c #1d485e #183d50 #143242 #102834 #0b1d26 #071217

Tints of steel blue

#388eba #479cc7 #5ca7ce #72b3d4 #87bedb #9ccae1 #b1d5e8 #c7e1ee #dcecf4 #f1f8fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#a55932 Analogous#32a593 Analogous#3245a5 Triadic#a5327e Triadic#7ea532 Split complementary#a53244 Split complementary#a59232

Steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 70, 24, 0, 35.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #327ea5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

70 24 0 35

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

68 26 4 41

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 #327ea5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #327ea5; }
.text { color: #327ea5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #327ea5; }

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 #327ea5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #327ea5 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 #327ea5 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 #327ea5 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 #327ea5 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.