Light blue

#aed4e7

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

Light blue sits in the blue band, light and soft. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Light blue color values

Every conversion for #aed4e7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#aed4e7

RGB174, 212, 231

HSL200, 54%, 79%

HSV200, 25%, 91%

CMYK25%, 8%, 0%, 9%

Lab82.84, -8.3, -13.47

XYZ55.42, 61.86, 84.62

Decimal11457767

Web safe#99ccff

Pantone291 C

Shades of light blue

#91c5de #74b5d6 #57a6cd #3a97c5 #3281a8 #296a8b #21546e #183e51 #102834 #071218

Tints of light blue

#b5d8e9 #bbdbeb #c2dfed #c9e2ef #d0e6f1 #d6e9f3 #ddedf5 #e4f1f7 #ebf4f9 #f1f8fb

Colors that go with light blue

Complementary#e7c1ae Analogous#aee7de Analogous#aeb8e7 Triadic#e7aed4 Triadic#d4e7ae Split complementary#e7aeb8 Split complementary#e7deae

Light blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 8, 0, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #aed4e7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 8 0 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 11 4 15

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 blue in css

Copy #aed4e7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #aed4e7; }
.text { color: #aed4e7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #aed4e7; }

How light blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #aed4e7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #aed4e7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #aed4e7 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn light blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #aed4e7 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 blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #aed4e7 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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 figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.