Steel blue

#627ebe

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. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Steel blue color values

Every conversion for #627ebe, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#627ebe

RGB98, 126, 190

HSL222, 41%, 56%

HSV222, 48%, 75%

CMYK48%, 34%, 0%, 25%

Lab53.21, 7.72, -36.67

XYZ21.79, 21.24, 51.67

Decimal6454974

Web safe#6666cc

Pantone2718 C

Shades of steel blue

#506fb6 #4563a7 #3e5895 #364e83 #2f4371 #27385e #202d4c #18223a #101828 #090d16

Tints of steel blue

#708ac4 #7f96ca #8da2d0 #9cadd6 #aab9dc #b9c5e2 #c7d1e8 #d6ddee #e4e9f4 #f2f5fa

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#bea262 Analogous#62acbe Analogous#7462be Triadic#be627e Triadic#7ebe62 Split complementary#be7462 Split complementary#acbe62

Steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 48, 34, 0, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #627ebe on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

48 34 0 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

48 35 4 31

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 #627ebe straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #627ebe; }
.text { color: #627ebe; }
.border { border: 2px solid #627ebe; }

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 #627ebe against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #627ebe 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 #627ebe 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 #627ebe 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 #627ebe 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.