Steel blue

#348eaa

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

Steel blue is a deep teal, serious between blue and green. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Pair it with warm oranges for a complementary lift, or with deep navy for depth.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #348eaa, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#348eaa

RGB52, 142, 170

HSL194, 53%, 44%

HSV194, 69%, 67%

CMYK69%, 16%, 0%, 33%

Lab55.05, -17.3, -22.51

XYZ18.34, 22.98, 41.5

Decimal3444394

Web safe#339999

Pantone640 C

Shades of steel blue

#30829b #2b768d #27697e #225d6f #1e5161 #194552 #153843 #102c35 #0c2026 #071417

Tints of steel blue

#3a9fbf #4cabc8 #61b4cf #75bed5 #8ac8db #9fd2e2 #b3dbe8 #c8e5ee #ddeff4 #f1f9fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#aa5034 Analogous#34aa8b Analogous#3453aa Triadic#aa348e Triadic#8eaa34 Split complementary#aa3453 Split complementary#aa8b34

Steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 69, 16, 0, 33.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #348eaa on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

69 16 0 33

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

67 19 4 39

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 #348eaa straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #348eaa; }
.text { color: #348eaa; }
.border { border: 2px solid #348eaa; }

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 #348eaa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #348eaa 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 #348eaa 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 #348eaa 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 #348eaa come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.