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

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Steel Blue
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#4682B4
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(70, 130, 180)
HSV (h, s, v)	(207°, 61%, 71%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(52, 54, 243°)
Source	X11[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Moderate blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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The first recorded use of steel blue as a color name in English was in 1817.^[2]

In 1987, Steel blue was included as one of the X11 colors, later also known as the X11 web colors after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991.

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.

• RAL 5011 Steel blue
• List of colors