Light blue

#afdbea

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

Light blue is a light blue that reads open. 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 #afdbea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#afdbea

RGB175, 219, 234

HSL195, 58%, 80%

HSV195, 25%, 92%

CMYK25%, 6%, 0%, 8%

Lab84.85, -10.95, -12.04

XYZ57.86, 65.72, 87.48

Decimal11525098

Web safe#99ccff

Pantone291 C

Shades of light blue

#91cee2 #73c0da #55b3d2 #37a5cb #2e8dae #267590 #1e5d72 #164454 #0e2c36 #061418

Tints of light blue

#b6deec #bce1ed #c3e4ef #c9e7f1 #d0eaf3 #d7edf4 #ddf0f6 #e4f3f8 #eaf6fa #f1f9fb

Colors that go with light blue

Complementary#eabeaf Analogous#afeadb Analogous#afbeea Triadic#eaafdb Triadic#dbeaaf Split complementary#eaafbe Split complementary#eadbaf

Light blue in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 25, 6, 0, 8.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 6 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 10 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 blue in css

Copy #afdbea straight into your stylesheet.

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

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

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