Light blue

#c4e7fb

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

Light blue sits in the blue band, pale and vivid. Pale blues like this read clean and calm, common in health and tech. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Light blue color values

Every conversion for #c4e7fb, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c4e7fb

RGB196, 231, 251

HSL202, 87%, 88%

HSV202, 22%, 98%

CMYK22%, 8%, 0%, 2%

Lab89.79, -7.16, -13.48

XYZ68.75, 75.85, 102.28

Decimal12904443

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone290 C

Shades of light blue

#9dd7f8 #76c7f6 #4fb7f3 #28a8f0 #0f94e0 #0d7ab9 #0a6092 #07466b #052d44 #02131d

Tints of light blue

#cceafc #d5eefc #ddf1fd #e6f5fd #eef8fe

Colors that go with light blue

Complementary#fbd8c4 Analogous#c4fbf3 Analogous#c4ccfb Triadic#fbc4e7 Triadic#e7fbc4 Split complementary#fbc4cc Split complementary#fbf4c4

Light blue in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 22, 8, 0, 2.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c4e7fb on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

22 8 0 2

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

24 11 4 8

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 blue in css

Copy #c4e7fb straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c4e7fb; }
.text { color: #c4e7fb; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c4e7fb; }

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 #c4e7fb against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c4e7fb 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 #c4e7fb 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 #c4e7fb 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 #c4e7fb 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.