Light steel blue

#cbe6ff

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 pale blue that reads quiet. Pale blues like this read clean and calm, common in health and tech. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #cbe6ff, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cbe6ff

RGB203, 230, 255

HSL209, 100%, 90%

HSV209, 20%, 100%

CMYK20%, 10%, 0%, 0%

Lab90.1, -3.69, -15.07

XYZ70.98, 76.51, 105.63

Decimal13362943

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone277 C

Shades of light steel blue

#a0d1ff #76bdff #4ba8ff #2094ff #007ff4 #0069ca #00529f #003c74 #002649 #00101f

Tints of light steel blue

#cee8ff #d2e9ff #d5ebff #d9edff #dceeff #dff0ff #e3f1ff #e6f3ff #eaf5ff #edf6ff

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#ffe4cb Analogous#cbfffe Analogous#cbccff Triadic#ffcbe6 Triadic#e6ffcb Split complementary#ffcbcc Split complementary#fffecb

Light steel blue in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 20, 10, 0, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cbe6ff on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

20 10 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

22 13 4 6

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light steel blue in css

Copy #cbe6ff straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cbe6ff; }
.text { color: #cbe6ff; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cbe6ff; }

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 #cbe6ff against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cbe6ff against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light steel blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #cbe6ff 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light steel blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #cbe6ff 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 #cbe6ff are worked out. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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.