Light steel blue

#aebdff

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. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Light steel blue color values

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

Hex#aebdff

RGB174, 189, 255

HSL229, 100%, 84%

HSV229, 32%, 100%

CMYK32%, 26%, 0%, 0%

Lab77.65, 9.71, -34.19

XYZ53.7, 52.61, 101.93

Decimal11451903

Web safe#99ccff

Pantone2717 C

Shades of light steel blue

#869dff #5e7cff #365cff #0f3bff #002be6 #0023be #001c96 #00146e #000d46 #00061f

Tints of light steel blue

#b4c2ff #bbc7ff #c1ccff #c7d2ff #ced7ff #d4dcff #dae1ff #e1e6ff #e7ebff #edf0ff

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#fff0ae Analogous#aee5ff Analogous#c8aeff Triadic#ffaebd Triadic#bdffae Split complementary#ffc8ae Split complementary#e5ffae

Light steel blue in print

A color this vivid sometimes sits just outside cmyk gamut, so expect a small dip in punch on paper. The cmyk build is 32, 26, 0, 0.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

32 26 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

33 28 4 6

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Light steel blue in css

Copy #aebdff straight into your stylesheet.

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

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

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

Light steel blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #aebdff 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn light steel blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #aebdff 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 #aebdff is computed, not guessed. 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.