Steel blue

#43899f

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. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #43899f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#43899f

RGB67, 137, 159

HSL194, 41%, 44%

HSV194, 58%, 62%

CMYK58%, 14%, 0%, 38%

Lab53.59, -15.4, -18.38

XYZ17.52, 21.59, 36.04

Decimal4426143

Web safe#339999

Pantone314 C

Shades of steel blue

#3d7d91 #377184 #326576 #2c5a68 #264e5a #20424d #1a363f #152a31 #0f1e23 #091316

Tints of steel blue

#4b99b2 #5da4bb #6fafc2 #82b9ca #95c4d2 #a8ceda #bad9e2 #cde3ea #e0edf2 #f2f8fa

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#9f5943 Analogous#439f87 Analogous#435b9f Triadic#9f4389 Triadic#899f43 Split complementary#9f435b Split complementary#9f8743

Steel blue in print

It converts to cmyk cleanly and holds its character from screen to paper. The cmyk build is 58, 14, 0, 38.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #43899f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

58 14 0 38

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

57 17 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 #43899f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #43899f; }
.text { color: #43899f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #43899f; }

How steel blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Steel blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #43899f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #43899f 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 #43899f 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 #43899f 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.

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How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #43899f 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.