Light blue

#b9cbcc

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

Light blue is a light teal, soft between blue and green. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Light blue color values

Every conversion for #b9cbcc, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#b9cbcc

RGB185, 203, 204

HSL183, 16%, 76%

HSV183, 9%, 80%

CMYK9%, 0%, 0%, 20%

Lab80.4, -5.87, -2.59

XYZ52.26, 57.39, 65.45

Decimal12176332

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone552 C

Shades of light blue

#a4bcbd #90acae #7b9d9f #688c8e #587879 #496365 #3a4f50 #2b3a3b #1c2626 #0d1112

Tints of light blue

#bfcfd0 #c5d4d5 #cbd8d9 #d1dddd #d7e1e2 #dde6e6 #e3eaea #e9eeef #eff3f3 #f5f7f7

Colors that go with light blue

Complementary#ccbab9 Analogous#b9ccc4 Analogous#b9c1cc Triadic#ccb9cb Triadic#cbccb9 Split complementary#ccb9c1 Split complementary#ccc4b9

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 9, 0, 0, 20.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #b9cbcc on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

9 0 0 20

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

12 4 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light blue in css

Copy #b9cbcc straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #b9cbcc; }
.text { color: #b9cbcc; }
.border { border: 2px solid #b9cbcc; }

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 #b9cbcc against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #b9cbcc against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #b9cbcc 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #b9cbcc 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 #b9cbcc come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.