Light steel blue

#bec9cc

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

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

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #bec9cc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bec9cc

RGB190, 201, 204

HSL193, 12%, 77%

HSV193, 7%, 80%

CMYK7%, 1%, 0%, 20%

Lab80.22, -3.16, -2.8

XYZ53.02, 57.08, 65.35

Decimal12503500

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone5445 C

Shades of light steel blue

#aab8bc #95a7ac #81969c #6d858b #5d7177 #4d5e63 #3d4b4e #2d373a #1d2426 #0d1011

Tints of light steel blue

#c9d2d5 #d4dbdd #dfe4e6 #eaeeef #f5f7f7

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#ccc1be Analogous#beccc8 Analogous#bec2cc Triadic#ccbec9 Triadic#c9ccbe Split complementary#ccbec2 Split complementary#ccc8be

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 7, 1, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bec9cc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

7 1 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

10 5 4 26

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 #bec9cc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bec9cc; }
.text { color: #bec9cc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bec9cc; }

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 #bec9cc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bec9cc 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 #bec9cc 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 #bec9cc 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 #bec9cc is computed, not guessed. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.