Light Steel Blue color (#B0C4DE)
Light Steel Blue is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword lightsteelblue
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #B0C4DE, which is rgb(176, 196, 222) in RGB.
It is a light, muted cool color with a hue angle of 214° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 81% in OKLCH. On a light steel blue background, black text gives the higher contrast at 11.79:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Light Steel Blue color codes
| CSS name | lightsteelblue |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #B0C4DE |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #B0C4DEFF |
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| RGB | rgb(176, 196, 222) |
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| HSL | hsl(214, 41%, 78%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(214, 21%, 87%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(81.4% 0.0428 255) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(20.7%, 11.7%, 0%, 12.9%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for light steel blue used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of light steel blue
Tints mix light steel blue with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with light steel blue
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Light Steel Blue with color blindness
Approximately how light steel blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using light steel blue in CSS
.element {
color: lightsteelblue;
background-color: #b0c4de;
border-color: rgb(176 196 222 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(81.4% 0.0428 255);
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