Light blue

#bcdee7

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

Light blue lands where green meets blue, light and soft. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Pair it with warm oranges for a complementary lift, or with deep navy for depth.

Light blue color values

Every conversion for #bcdee7, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bcdee7

RGB188, 222, 231

HSL193, 47%, 82%

HSV193, 19%, 91%

CMYK19%, 4%, 0%, 9%

Lab86.36, -9.24, -8.13

XYZ61.28, 68.7, 85.63

Decimal12377831

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone2975 C

Shades of light blue

#9fd0dd #83c2d3 #66b4c8 #4aa6be #3b8fa6 #317789 #275e6c #1d4550 #122c33 #081417

Tints of light blue

#c7e3eb #d2e9ef #dceef3 #e7f3f6 #f2f9fa

Colors that go with light blue

Complementary#e7c5bc Analogous#bce7db Analogous#bcc8e7 Triadic#e7bcde Triadic#dee7bc Split complementary#e7bcc8 Split complementary#e7dbbc

Light 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 19, 4, 0, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bcdee7 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

19 4 0 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

21 8 4 15

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 blue in css

Copy #bcdee7 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bcdee7; }
.text { color: #bcdee7; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bcdee7; }

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 #bcdee7 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bcdee7 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #bcdee7 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 the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn light blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #bcdee7 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

Here is how the numbers for #bcdee7 are worked out. 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.