Steel blue

Steel blue

infobox color
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Steel blue is a shade of blue that resembles steel.

teel 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 the color in this article.Lighting Design
* Steel blue is one of the more common colors used in theatrical lighting design.

ee also

*List of colors


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