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Light Sky Blue

Hex #87CEFA, rgb(135 206 250). A blue CSS named color.

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About Light Sky Blue

Light Sky Blue is a light moderately saturated blue with the hex code #87CEFA. In RGB it is made of 135 red, 206 green and 250 blue; in HSL its hue is 203°, with 92% saturation and 75% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 82.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lightskyblue" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.72:1 and against black 12.24:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Light Sky Blue mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

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Tones (with gray)

Light Sky Blue 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Light Sky Blue

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Light Sky Blue with white and black. The readable text color on Light Sky Blue is black.

Light Sky Blue textSmall text on white

On white1.72:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 31

Light Sky Blue textSmall text on black

On black12.24:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -72

Black text on Light Sky Blue (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Light Sky Blue appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#BACDFC
  • Deuteranopia#AAC0F9
  • Tritanopia#53D9DC
  • Protanomaly#ADCCFB
  • Deuteranomaly#A4C4FA
  • Tritanomaly#77D3ED
  • Achromatopsia#C6C6C6

Colors similar to Light Sky Blue

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Light Sky Blue in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.light-sky-blue {
  color: lightskyblue; /* #87CEFA */
  background-color: rgb(135 206 250);
  border-color: oklch(82.1% 0.095 236.8);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-light-sky-blue-500, text-light-sky-blue-700... */
@theme {
  --color-light-sky-blue-50: #F5FBFF;
  --color-light-sky-blue-100: #DEF2FF;
  --color-light-sky-blue-200: #BEE3FC;
  --color-light-sky-blue-300: #87CEFA;
  --color-light-sky-blue-400: #1FABEE;
  --color-light-sky-blue-500: #0093D0;
  --color-light-sky-blue-600: #007DB2;
  --color-light-sky-blue-700: #006590;
  --color-light-sky-blue-800: #005074;
  --color-light-sky-blue-900: #00415F;
  --color-light-sky-blue-950: #001927;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#87CEFA] text-[#000000]">…</div>