Light steel blue

#8ea5bd

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

Light steel blue sits in the blue band, mid and muted. A mid blue this balanced is a workhorse for corporate identity. Warm oranges and ambers opposite it add energy and grey keeps it professional.

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #8ea5bd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8ea5bd

RGB142, 165, 189

HSL211, 26%, 65%

HSV211, 25%, 74%

CMYK25%, 13%, 0%, 26%

Lab66.78, -2.57, -14.98

XYZ33.8, 36.34, 53.38

Decimal9348541

Web safe#9999cc

Pantone651 C

Shades of light steel blue

#7b96b2 #6887a7 #597898 #4e6985 #435a72 #384b5f #2d3c4c #212d39 #161e26 #0b0f13

Tints of light steel blue

#98adc3 #a2b5c9 #adbdcf #b7c5d5 #c1cedb #cbd6e1 #d5dee7 #dfe6ed #eaeef2 #f4f6f8

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#bda68e Analogous#8ebcbd Analogous#8f8ebd Triadic#bd8ea5 Triadic#a5bd8e Split complementary#bd8f8e Split complementary#bdbd8e

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 25, 13, 0, 26.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8ea5bd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

25 13 0 26

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

27 16 4 32

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

Light steel blue in css

Copy #8ea5bd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8ea5bd; }
.text { color: #8ea5bd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8ea5bd; }

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 #8ea5bd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8ea5bd 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 #8ea5bd 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 #8ea5bd 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 #8ea5bd are worked out. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.