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Steel blue

Color

Field	Value
title	Steel Blue
hex	4682B4
source	X11
isccname	Moderate blue

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-gray color.

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

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.

Variations of steel blue

Light steel blue

At right is displayed the web color light steel blue, a light tint of steel blue.

Steel blue (Crayola)

At right is displayed the color that is called "steel blue" in Crayola crayons. Steel blue has been a Crayola Metallic FX color since 2001.

Steel blue in nature

Beetles

The Steel blue lady beetle

Fish

In Siamese fighting fish the steel blue color comes from being homozygous for a single gene.
The Steel-blue Aphyosemion

Birds

Steel-blue whydah
Steel-blue flycatcher

Steel blue in culture

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.

References

[http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color CSS Color Module Level 3]
(1930). "A Dictionary of Color". McGraw-Hill.
Robert Jay Goldstein. (2001). "Bettas: everything about history, care, nutrition, handling, and behavior". Barron's.

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