Light steel blue

#a1bfeb

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for light steel blue, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Light steel blue sits in the blue band, light and strong. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #a1bfeb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a1bfeb

RGB161, 191, 235

HSL216, 65%, 78%

HSV216, 31%, 92%

CMYK31%, 19%, 0%, 8%

Lab76.58, 0.01, -25.15

XYZ48.32, 50.84, 85.86

Decimal10600427

Web safe#99ccff

Pantone2717 C

Shades of light steel blue

#83aae5 #6596de #4781d8 #2c6ece #255eb0 #1f4e92 #193e74 #122d55 #0c1d37 #050d19

Tints of light steel blue

#a9c4ed #b1caee #b9cff0 #c1d5f2 #c9daf3 #d1dff5 #d8e5f7 #e0eaf8 #e8f0fa #f0f5fc

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#ebcda1 Analogous#a1e4eb Analogous#a8a1eb Triadic#eba1bf Triadic#bfeba1 Split complementary#eba8a1 Split complementary#e4eba1

Light steel blue in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 31, 19, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a1bfeb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

31 19 0 8

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

33 21 4 14

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light steel blue in css

Copy #a1bfeb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a1bfeb; }
.text { color: #a1bfeb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a1bfeb; }

How light steel blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light steel blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a1bfeb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a1bfeb against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light steel blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a1bfeb sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light steel blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light steel blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a1bfeb and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from light steel blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #a1bfeb are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone value is the closest reference by perceptual color distance and should be treated as a starting point, not a guaranteed match.