29 Shades of Iron Color

Most grays try to disappear into the background, but iron doesn’t. It’s dense, industrial, and unapologetically dark: the color of cast cookware and parking structures, not Pinterest mood boards. The iron color shades here include hex and RGB details for every tone, from weathered silver to near-black forge metal.

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Iron Blue Color
Iron blue is another name for Prussian blue, Pigment Blue 27, the ferric ferrocyanide pigment discovered in Berlin in the early 1700s. Paint chemists still use the term. Iron Blue color (#114b91) is a strong, clear navy with real pigment history behind it.
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Iron Teal Color
Iron Teal color code #114e56 is a dark petrol blue-green, the color of deep water under a steel bridge. In a dim room it’s almost black. Daylight brings the teal back, and then the iron in the name makes sense, cold and heavy.
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Iron Ore Color
This warm terracotta-rust is worth a caution: the famous Iron Ore is Sherwin-Williams SW 7069, a near-black charcoal at hex #434341, not this reddish clay tone, so the two shouldn’t be confused. Read literally, though, iron ore does rust to exactly this earthy red-orange. The Iron Ore color code here reads as a grounded, southwestern terracotta.
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Iron Grey Color
Raw cast iron holds a cool matte grey before it oxidizes to red rust. Iron Grey color at #7c7f7c takes that industrial tone straight from a Le Creuset skillet. Steel and concrete find their partner here.