Steel Blue is the CSS named color steelblue at #4682B4, a muted medium blue with a gray-cyan direction.
Steel Blue is the CSS named color keyword steelblue, standardized at #4682B4 in sRGB.
#4682B4rgb(70, 130, 180)hsl(207 44% 49%)207°, 61%, 71%61%, 28%, 0%, 29%HEX/RGB/HSL/HSV are deterministic sRGB representations. CMYK here is a mathematical approximation, not a printer-profile conversion.
AA normal text: black passes; white fails.
AA large text: black passes; white passes.
WCAG contrast thresholds use 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text. Do not round a near-threshold result upward when testing conformance.
These steps are computed by RGB-mixing #4682B4 toward white or black. They are generated values, not official named colors.
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.example {
color: #000000;
background-color: steelblue;
}You can use either steelblue or #4682B4 in CSS; both resolve to the same sRGB color.
Closest entries in the current Colormapped set by simple RGB-channel distance:
RGB distance is a simple numerical comparison, not a perceptual color-difference standard.
The keyword and base sRGB value come from the standardized CSS named-color set documented by MDN’s named-color reference. Derived values on this page are computed from that sRGB value.
Contrast uses the W3C relative-luminance formula and thresholds described in WCAG Contrast (Minimum).
Convert #4682B4 with the HEX to RGB converter, test another foreground/background pair in the Contrast Checker, or browse the shade families.