Light steel blue

#b3bebf

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 teal, soft between blue and green. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #b3bebf, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b3bebf

RGB179, 190, 191

HSL185, 9%, 73%

HSV185, 6%, 75%

CMYK6%, 1%, 0%, 25%

Lab76.17, -3.59, -1.82

XYZ46.41, 50.17, 56.53

Decimal11779775

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5435 C

Shades of light steel blue

#a1aeaf #8e9ea0 #7c8f90 #6b7d7f #5c6b6d #4c595a #3d4748 #2d3535 #1e2323 #0e1011

Tints of light steel blue

#bac4c5 #c7cfd0 #ced5d5 #dbe0e1 #e8ebec #f5f7f7

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#bfb4b3 Analogous#b3bfba Analogous#b3b8bf Triadic#bfb3be Triadic#bebfb3 Split complementary#bfb3b8 Split complementary#bfbab3

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 6, 1, 0, 25.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b3bebf on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

6 1 0 25

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 5 4 31

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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Light steel blue in css

Copy #b3bebf straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b3bebf; }
.text { color: #b3bebf; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b3bebf; }

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 #b3bebf against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b3bebf 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 #b3bebf 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 #b3bebf 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

Here is how the numbers for #b3bebf are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.