Steel blue

#3473b6

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

Steel blue is a mid blue that reads confident. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #3473b6, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#3473b6

RGB52, 115, 182

HSL211, 56%, 46%

HSV211, 71%, 71%

CMYK71%, 37%, 0%, 29%

Lab47.45, 2.51, -41.29

XYZ15.99, 16.37, 46.57

Decimal3437494

Web safe#3366cc

Pantone300 C

Shades of steel blue

#2f69a6 #2b5f96 #265587 #224b77 #1d4167 #193757 #142d47 #102337 #0b1928 #070f18

Tints of steel blue

#3c80c7 #508dcd #659ad3 #79a7d9 #8db4de #a1c1e4 #b5cfea #c9dcf0 #dde9f5 #f1f6fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#b67734 Analogous#34b4b6 Analogous#3634b6 Triadic#b63473 Triadic#73b634 Split complementary#b63634 Split complementary#b4b634

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, 37, 0, 29.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #3473b6 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

71 37 0 29

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

69 38 4 35

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Steel blue in css

Copy #3473b6 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #3473b6; }
.text { color: #3473b6; }
.border { border: 2px solid #3473b6; }

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 #3473b6 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #3473b6 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Steel blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #3473b6 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn steel blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #3473b6 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

Every value on this page for #3473b6 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.