CSS named colour

Light Sky Blue

#87cefa

A CSS named colour: lightskyblue is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB
rgb(135 206 250)
HSL
203°, 92%, 75%
OKLCh
82.1% 0.095 236.8

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Light Sky Blue in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex#87cefa
RGBrgb(135 206 250)
RGB legacyrgb(135, 206, 250)
RGB percentrgb(52.94% 80.78% 98.04%)
HSLhsl(203 92% 75.5%)
HSL legacyhsl(203, 92%, 75.5%)
HSV / HSBhsv(203, 46%, 98%)
HWBhwb(203 52.9% 2%)
Nearest namelightskyblue
CMYKcmyk(46%, 17.6%, 0%, 2%)Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLChoklch(82.062% 0.09453 236.754)Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLaboklab(82.062% -0.05182 -0.07906)
CIE LChlch(79.29% 32.478 243.62)
CIE Lablab(79.29% -14.431 -29.096)
Display P3color(display-p3 0.5916 0.8006 0.9636)
Rec. 2020color(rec2020 0.6258 0.7711 0.9566)
srgb-linearcolor(srgb-linear 0.2423 0.6172 0.956)Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)color(xyz-d65 0.4932 0.5619 0.9869)

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGBvec3(0.529, 0.808, 0.98)Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linearvec3(0.242, 0.617, 0.956)Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGBvec4(0.529, 0.808, 0.98, 1.0)
GLSL vec4 — linearvec4(0.242, 0.617, 0.956, 1.0)
GLSL ivec3ivec3(135, 206, 250)
HLSL float3 — sRGBfloat3(0.529, 0.808, 0.98)
HLSL float3 — linearfloat3(0.242, 0.617, 0.956)
HLSL float4 — sRGBfloat4(0.529, 0.808, 0.98, 1.0)
HLSL half4 — sRGBhalf4(0.529, 0.808, 0.98, 1.0)
WGSL vec3f — sRGBvec3f(0.529, 0.808, 0.98)
WGSL vec4f — sRGBvec4f(0.529, 0.808, 0.98, 1.0)
WGSL vec3<f32> — linearvec3<f32>(0.242, 0.617, 0.956)

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Colornew Color(0.529f, 0.808f, 0.98f, 1.0f)Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32new Color32(135, 206, 250, 255)
Unreal FLinearColorFLinearColor(0.2423f, 0.6172f, 0.956f, 1.0f)FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColorFColor(135, 206, 250, 255)Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot ColorColor(0.529, 0.808, 0.98, 1)
Flutter ColorColor(0xFF87CEFA)Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android ColorColor.rgb(135, 206, 250)
SwiftUI ColorColor(red: 0.529, green: 0.808, blue: 0.98)
UIKit UIColorUIColor(red: 0.529, green: 0.808, blue: 0.98, alpha: 1)

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex0x87CEFA
0x hex (ARGB)0xFF87CEFA
Array 0–1[0.529, 0.808, 0.98]
Array 0–255[135, 206, 250]
Decimal integer8900346

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

PairingWCAG 2 ratioLevelAPCASuitable for
Light Sky Blue on white1.72:1FailLc 31Non-text elements only
Light Sky Blue on black12.24:1AAALc 72Headings and large text

Light Sky Blue text on a white background

Light Sky Blue text on a black background

White text on Light Sky Blue

Black text on Light Sky Blue

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

  • 50#e1fcff
  • 100#cdf4ff
  • 200#aae5ff
  • 300#90cff6
  • 400#6fb2dc
  • 500#4d94bd
  • 600#3479a0
  • 700#1f6185
  • 800#0d4d6d
  • 900#003d59
  • 950#002339

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

  • Tint 1#9cd6fb
  • Tint 2#b1dffc
  • Tint 3#c5e7fd
  • Tint 4#d8effe
  • Tint 5#ecf7ff
  • Shade 1#69a1c4
  • Shade 2#4c7791
  • Shade 3#314e61
  • Shade 4#182a35
  • Shade 5#04090e

Colours that work with Light Sky Blue

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

  • #f4b588
  • #f7abc5
  • #c0cd85
  • #73d6e3
  • #a8c3ff

Closest CSS names

  • lightskyblueexact match
  • skyblueΔEok 0.022
  • lightsteelblueΔEok 0.056
  • lightblueΔEok 0.061
  • powderblueΔEok 0.079
  • deepskyblueΔEok 0.089