Light steel blue

#a8a5df

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

This is Light steel blue, a soft blue at 243 degrees. 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 #a8a5df, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a8a5df

RGB168, 165, 223

HSL243, 48%, 76%

HSV243, 26%, 87%

CMYK25%, 26%, 0%, 13%

Lab69.87, 13.48, -28.88

XYZ42.92, 40.56, 75.38

Decimal11052511

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone2716 C

Shades of light steel blue

#8f8bd6 #7570cc #5c56c3 #4640b5 #3c379a #322e80 #282466 #1d1b4b #131131 #090817

Tints of light steel blue

#afade2 #b7b4e4 #bebce7 #c6c4ea #cdcbed #d5d3ef #dcdbf2 #e3e2f5 #ebeaf8 #f2f2fa

Colors that go with light steel blue

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Light steel blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 26, 0, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a8a5df on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 26 0 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 28 4 19

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 #a8a5df straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a8a5df; }
.text { color: #a8a5df; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a8a5df; }

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 #a8a5df against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a8a5df 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 #a8a5df 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 #a8a5df 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

The figures for #a8a5df come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.