Steel blue

#48798e

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

This is Steel blue, a soft blue at 198 degrees. 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 #48798e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#48798e

RGB72, 121, 142

HSL198, 33%, 42%

HSV198, 49%, 56%

CMYK49%, 15%, 0%, 44%

Lab48.27, -10.51, -16.55

XYZ14.39, 17.01, 28.12

Decimal4749710

Web safe#336699

Pantone5415 C

Shades of steel blue

#426f82 #3c6476 #355a69 #2f505d #294551 #233b45 #1d3039 #17262d #101c20 #0a1114

Tints of steel blue

#5189a0 #6097ae #72a3b7 #84afc1 #97bbca #a9c7d4 #bcd3dd #cedfe6 #e1ebf0 #f3f7f9

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#8e5d48 Analogous#488e80 Analogous#48568e Triadic#8e4879 Triadic#798e48 Split complementary#8e4856 Split complementary#8e8048

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 49, 15, 0, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #48798e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

49 15 0 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

49 18 4 50

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 #48798e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #48798e; }
.text { color: #48798e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #48798e; }

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 #48798e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #48798e 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 #48798e 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 #48798e 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 #48798e 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.