Steel blue

Steel Blue
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#4682b4
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(70, 130, 180)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)	(61, 28, 0, 29)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(207°, 61%, 71[1]%)
Source	X11[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Steel blue is a shade of blue that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has been subjected to bluing in order to protect it from rust. It is one of the less vibrant shades of blue; it is usually identified as a blue-grey color.

The first recorded use of steel blue as a color name in English was in 1817.^[3]

In 1987, Steel blue was included as one of the X11 colors when that color list was formulated. After the invention of the world wide web in 1991, these colors became known as the X11 web colors.

Variations of steel blue

Light steel blue

Light Steel Blue
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#B0C4DE
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(176, 196, 222)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)	(21, 12, 0, 13)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(214°, 21%, 87[4]%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the web color light steel blue, a light tint of steel blue.

Steel blue in nature

Beetles

• The Steel blue lady beetle

Fish

• In Siamese fighting fish the steel blue color comes from being homozygous for a single gene.^[5]
• The Steel-blue Aphyosemion

Birds

• Steel-blue whydah
• Steel-blue flycatcher

Steel blue in culture

Sports

• The Houston Texans, National Football League team includes deep steel blue as one of its three colors (along with "liberty white" and "battle red").
• The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the AAA affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team, includes steel blue as one of its three colors.
• The Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League use steel blue as a secondary color on their burgundy uniforms.
• The Steel Blue Oval is a sports stadium in Bassendean, Western Australia.

See also

• List of colors

References