Light steel blue

#cfe2f7

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, pale and strong. Pale blues like this read clean and calm, common in health and tech. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #cfe2f7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cfe2f7

RGB207, 226, 247

HSL212, 71%, 89%

HSV212, 16%, 97%

CMYK16%, 9%, 0%, 3%

Lab89.1, -2.09, -12.34

XYZ69.72, 74.37, 98.68

Decimal13624055

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone2707 C

Shades of light steel blue

#abccf1 #86b6eb #62a0e5 #3e8adf #2375d0 #1d60ab #174c87 #103863 #0a233f #040f1a

Tints of light steel blue

#d2e4f8 #d6e6f8 #d9e8f9 #dceaf9 #dfecfa #e3eefa #e6f0fb #e9f2fb #ecf4fc #f0f6fc

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#f7e4cf Analogous#cff6f7 Analogous#d0cff7 Triadic#f7cfe2 Triadic#e2f7cf Split complementary#f7d0cf Split complementary#f6f7cf

Light steel blue in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 16, 9, 0, 3.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cfe2f7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 9 0 3

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 12 4 9

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 #cfe2f7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cfe2f7; }
.text { color: #cfe2f7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cfe2f7; }

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 #cfe2f7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cfe2f7 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 #cfe2f7 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 #cfe2f7 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 #cfe2f7 is computed, not guessed. 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.