Light steel blue

#bbbcd2

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, light and muted. Light blues like this feel trustworthy, common in finance and software. It pairs with warm neutrals for balance, or with a brighter accent for contrast.

Light steel blue color values

Every conversion for #bbbcd2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#bbbcd2

RGB187, 188, 210

HSL237, 20%, 78%

HSV237, 11%, 82%

CMYK11%, 10%, 0%, 18%

Lab76.79, 3.96, -11.15

XYZ50.11, 51.18, 68.21

Decimal12303570

Web safe#cccccc

Pantone657 C

Shades of light steel blue

#a5a6c3 #8f91b5 #797ba6 #646697 #555781 #47486b #383955 #292a3f #1b1b28 #0c0c12

Tints of light steel blue

#c1c2d6 #c6c7da #cccddd #d2d3e1 #d8d8e5 #dddee9 #e3e3ed #e9e9f0 #efeff4 #f4f4f8

Colors that go with light steel blue

Complementary#d2d1bb Analogous#bbc8d2 Analogous#c5bbd2 Triadic#d2bbbc Triadic#bcd2bb Split complementary#d2c5bb Split complementary#c8d2bb

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 11, 10, 0, 18.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #bbbcd2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

11 10 0 18

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

14 13 4 24

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 #bbbcd2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #bbbcd2; }
.text { color: #bbbcd2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #bbbcd2; }

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 #bbbcd2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #bbbcd2 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 #bbbcd2 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 #bbbcd2 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 #bbbcd2 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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.