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75. Light Steel Blue
HTML Hex for Light Steel Blue is #B0C4DE
At left is displayed the web color light steel blue, a light tint of steel blue.
Steel blue is a shade of blue that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has
been subjected to bluing in order to protect it from rust. It is one of the
less vibrant shades of blue; it is usually identified as a blue-grey 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 when that color list
was formulated. After the invention of the world wide web in 1991, these colors
became known as the X11 web colors.
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