HEX Color #5075A8 (Steelblue)

About #5075A8

The hex code #5075A8 represents a beautifully specific shade of blue. It is closely associated with the named CSS color Steelblue. To achieve this exact tint on a monitor, you would use an RGB mix of 80, 117, and 168.

While screens use RGB, printing presses rely on Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (black). To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 52% cyan and 30% magenta inks. With a hue angle of 214.8 degrees, it sits comfortably in the blue spectrum.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) dictate how we should use this color. The calculated luminance score dictates that #FFFFFF typography is the safest choice. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#5075A8

RGB80, 117, 168

HSL214.8°, 35.5%, 48.6%

CMYK52%, 30%, 0%, 34%

HSV214.8°, 52.4%, 65.9%

LAB48.6, 1.9, -31.3

XYZ16.7, 17.3, 39.5

Decimal5273000

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#5075A8 #A8834F

Analogous

#4FA1A8 #564FA8

Triadic

#A84F75 #75A84F

Tetradic

#A84FA1 #A8834F #4FA856

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#5075A8

#6384B1

#7693BB

#8AA3C5

#9DB2CE

#B1C1D8

#C4D1E2

#D8E0EB

#EBEFF5

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#5075A8

#476895

#3E5B82

#354E70

#2C415D

#23344A

#1A2738

#111A25

#080D12

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

4.72:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AA

4.45:1

Text on #000000

AA Large

4.51:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AA

3.78:1

Text on #0F172A

AA Large

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #5075A8; }

.text-color { color: #5075A8; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #5075A8; }

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