Steel Blue

The color code of Steel Blue indicates, that blue is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with green it forms the basic color cyan, which determines the initial color impression along with the remains of blue. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Steel Blue is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 24 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 47 %, Steel Blue is a rather dark color.

Hex	`#5b7d99`
RGB	`rgb(91, 125, 153)`
HSL*	`hsl(207, 25%, 48%)`
Lab*	`50.91 -4.51 -18.88`
CMYK*	`41% 18% 0% 40%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

40 %

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