Steel blue

#2a6795

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

Steel blue is a deep blue that reads serious. 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 #2a6795, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#2a6795

RGB42, 103, 149

HSL206, 56%, 37%

HSV206, 72%, 58%

CMYK72%, 31%, 0%, 42%

Lab41.79, -3.73, -30.84

XYZ11.23, 12.36, 30.23

Decimal2779029

Web safe#336699

Pantone301 C

Shades of steel blue

#265e88 #23567c #1f4d6f #1c4463 #183c56 #15334a #112a3d #0e2231 #0a1924 #071118

Tints of steel blue

#3177ac #3787c4 #4d96cd #64a4d3 #7cb1da #93bfe1 #abcde7 #c2dbee #dae9f4 #f1f7fb

Colors that go with steel blue

Complementary#95582a Analogous#2a958d Analogous#2a3295 Triadic#952a67 Triadic#67952a Split complementary#952a32 Split complementary#958e2a

Steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 72, 31, 0, 42.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #2a6795 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

72 31 0 42

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

70 33 4 48

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 #2a6795 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #2a6795; }
.text { color: #2a6795; }
.border { border: 2px solid #2a6795; }

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 #2a6795 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #2a6795 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 #2a6795 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 #2a6795 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

Here is how the numbers for #2a6795 are worked out. 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.