Steel blue

#4e89ca

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

Steel blue sits in the blue band, mid and soft. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #4e89ca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#4e89ca

RGB78, 137, 202

HSL211, 54%, 55%

HSV211, 61%, 79%

CMYK61%, 32%, 0%, 21%

Lab55.86, 0.69, -39.4

XYZ22.75, 23.78, 59.27

Decimal5147082

Web safe#6699cc

Pantone542 C

Shades of steel blue

#3b7cc4 #3570b1 #2f649e #2a588b #244c78 #1e3f64 #183351 #13273e #0d1b2b #070f18

Tints of steel blue

#5e94cf #6f9fd4 #7faad9 #8fb5de #a0bfe2 #b0cae7 #c0d5ec #d1e0f1 #e1ebf6 #f1f6fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#ca8f4e Analogous#4ec7ca Analogous#514eca Triadic#ca4e89 Triadic#89ca4e Split complementary#ca514e Split complementary#c7ca4e

Steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 61, 32, 0, 21.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #4e89ca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

61 32 0 21

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

60 33 4 27

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 #4e89ca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #4e89ca; }
.text { color: #4e89ca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #4e89ca; }

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 #4e89ca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #4e89ca 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 #4e89ca 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 #4e89ca 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 #4e89ca 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.