Light steel blue

#afb7eb

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

Light steel blue is a light blue that reads 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 steel blue color values

Every conversion for #afb7eb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#afb7eb

RGB175, 183, 235

HSL232, 60%, 80%

HSV232, 26%, 92%

CMYK26%, 22%, 0%, 8%

Lab75.44, 8.44, -26.82

XYZ49.61, 48.98, 85.44

Decimal11515883

Web safe#99ccff

Pantone658 C

Shades of light steel blue

#919ce3 #7280dc #5465d4 #364acd #2c3eb0 #243392 #1d2874 #151e55 #0e1337 #060918

Tints of light steel blue

#b6bded #bcc3ee #c3c9f0 #c9cff2 #d0d5f3 #d6daf5 #dde0f7 #e4e6f8 #eaecfa #f1f2fb

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#ebe3af Analogous#afd5eb Analogous#c5afeb Triadic#ebafb7 Triadic#b7ebaf Split complementary#ebc5af Split complementary#d5ebaf

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 26, 22, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #afb7eb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

26 22 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

28 24 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 #afb7eb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #afb7eb; }
.text { color: #afb7eb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #afb7eb; }

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 #afb7eb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #afb7eb 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 #afb7eb 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 #afb7eb 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

Every value on this page for #afb7eb is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.