Information about #37517B color
Basic facts about this digital color
#37517B presents itself as a moderately toned steel-blue azure — one that occupies the middle of the lightness scale. In practice it works well for balanced palettes where no single element should shout. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Metallic Blue (#32527B). Slightly further away sit Takaka (#3D4D78) and Magik (#3E4C7A).
In RGB terms — rgb(55, 81, 123) — the blue channel does the heavy lifting here. On this background, white text reaches a 8.0:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); black stays at 2.6:1. Out of 16,777,216 possible colors, #37517B is still unnamed — it can be claimed and named in The Official Register of Color Names.
#37517B color variations
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#37517B color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
#37517B color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
#37517B color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
#37517B color hues
A hue refers to the basic neighbors of color and is variation of base color on the color wheel.
#37517B color harmonies
Color harmonies are pleasing color schemes created according to their position on a color wheel.
Complementary
Complementary color schemes are made by picking two opposite colors con the color wheel. They appear vibrant near to each other.
Split complementary
Split complementary schemes are like complementary but they uses two adiacent colors of the complement. They are more flexible than complementary ones.
Analogous
Analogous color schemes are made by picking three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. They are perceived as calm and serene.
Triadic
Triadic color schemes are created by picking three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. They appear quite contrasted and multicolored.
Tetradic
Tetradic color schemes are made form two couples of complementary colors in a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Square
Square color schemes are like tetradic arranged in a square instead of rectangle. Colors appear even more contrasting.
Alternatives to #37517B color
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Nearest named colors to #37517B
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity — your shade’s neighborhood is already being claimed.
#32527B
#3D4D78
#3E4C7A
#365C7D
#2B547E
#2D5877
#2C5778
#374E88
#3B5F78
#424F71
#305C71
#2C5971
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#37517B
- RGB55, 81, 123
- CMYK27, 16, 0, 52
- CSSrgb(55, 81, 123)
- HSL217°, 38%, 35%
- HSL Precise217.059°, 38.202%, 34.902%
- HSV217°, 55%, 48%
- HSB217°, 55%, 48%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.216
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.318
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.482
- GLSLvec3(0.216, 0.318, 0.482)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.216, 0.318, 0.482, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.216, 0.318, 0.482)
- Percentage of Red in RGB21.6%
- Percentage of Green in RGB31.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB48.2%
- Color FamilyAzure
- Saturation FamilyMild Saturation
- Lightness FamilyNeutral
- HEX ID37517B
- DECIMAL ID3625339
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers16 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
