Steel Blue
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#4682b4
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(70, 130, 180)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(207°, 61%, 71%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Steel blue is a shade of blue that resembles steel. It is one of the less vibrant shades of blue; usually identified as somewhat bluish-grey.

[edit] Steel blue in human culture

Architecture

• Steel blue is often used on the outer walls of loft apartments to suggest the fact that they often are built in neighborhoods that were formerly zoned for industry.

Computers

• The default desktop color on Windows 2000 and Windows XP computers is (58, 110, 165), which is very close to steel blue.

Lighting Design

• Steel blue is one of the more common colors used in theatrical lighting design.

Sports

• 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.

[edit] See also

• List of colors

v • d • e Shades of blue
Air Force blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Blue	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue	Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue	Cerulean
Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue	Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue	Egyptian blue
Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal Blue	Han blue	Iceberg	Indigo	International Klein Blue	Light blue	Majorelle blue	Maya blue
Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue
St. Patrick's blue	Steel blue	Teal	Tiffany Blue	Ultramarine	Yale Blue
The samples shown above are representative only.

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