Alice blue

#e1e4ea

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

Alice blue is a pale blue that reads gentle. 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.

Alice blue color values

Every conversion for #e1e4ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#e1e4ea

RGB225, 228, 234

HSL220, 18%, 90%

HSV220, 4%, 92%

CMYK4%, 3%, 0%, 8%

Lab90.52, 0.1, -3.28

XYZ73.65, 77.43, 88.91

Decimal14804202

Web safe#ccccff

Pantone656 C

Shades of alice blue

#c8cdd8 #afb7c7 #95a0b5 #7c89a3 #657390 #535f77 #424b5e #303744 #1e232b #0d0e12

Tints of alice blue

#e3e6eb #e5e8ed #e7e9ee #e9ebef #ebedf1 #edeff2 #eff0f4 #f1f2f5 #f3f4f6 #f5f6f8

Colors that go with alice blue

Complementary#eae7e1 Analogous#e1e9ea Analogous#e2e1ea Triadic#eae1e4 Triadic#e4eae1 Split complementary#eae2e1 Split complementary#e9eae1

Alice blue in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 4, 3, 0, 8.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #e1e4ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 3 0 8

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 7 4 14

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.

Alice blue in css

Copy #e1e4ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #e1e4ea; }
.text { color: #e1e4ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #e1e4ea; }

How alice blue looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Alice blue and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #e1e4ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #e1e4ea against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Alice blue on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #e1e4ea sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around alice blue? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn alice blue into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #e1e4ea 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 alice blue, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Here is how the numbers for #e1e4ea 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.