Pastel Blue Color Codes

Pastel Blue is a light, vivid azure blue with the hex code #A2BFFE, RGB values of 162, 191, 254 and an HSL value of hsl(221, 98%, 82%).

HEX	#A2BFFE
RGB	162, 191, 254
HSL	hsl(221, 98%, 82%)
HSV	221°, 36%, 100%
CMYK	36%, 25%, 0%, 0%
LAB	77.34, 5.08, -34.18
CIELCHuv	77.34, 58.45, 253.18°

Nearest Pantone: PMS 2717 C ΔE 13.6 · approximate
Nearest CSS name: lightskyblue ΔE 17.1

Community source color-name-list, community color-name index

Pastel Blue Color Hex Code

The Pastel Blue color hex code is #A2BFFE. Those six digits are three pairs, A2 for red, BF for green and FE for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#A2BFFE

Pastel Blue Color RGB Code

The Pastel Blue RGB code is rgb(162, 191, 254). Blue carries the most light at 254 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(162, 191, 254)

Pastel Blue Color HSV Code

The Pastel Blue HSV code is 221°, 36%, 100%. Read it as a hue of 221 degrees, 36% saturation and 100% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

221°, 36%, 100%

Pastel Blue Color CIELChuv Code

The Pastel Blue CIELCHuv code is 77.34, 58.45, 253.18°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 77 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 58 is how far it sits from grey.

77.34, 58.45, 253.18°

Tonal scale

What are Pastel Blue Color Palettes?

A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.

Shades, toward black

Tints, toward white

Tones, toward grey

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Pastel Blue Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #A2BFFE. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

The opposite hue is #FEE1A2, a very light, vivid amber. Complements carry the strongest contrast of any two-color scheme, so this pair suits a call to action better than a background. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.

Analogous

Its two neighbours are #A2EDFE and #B3A2FE. Because they overlap heavily in hue, nothing in the group competes, and the eye reads the whole set as a single color with variation.

Triadic

#FEA2BF and #BFFEA2 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.

Split-complementary

Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #FEB3A2 and #EDFEA2. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #FEE1A2, and #FEA2ED with #A2FEB3. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat the darkest of the four as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.

White background

1.84:1

1.84

contrast ratio on white background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Fails	Fails
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Fails	Fails
UI component needs 3:1	Fails	n/a

Black background

11.42:1

11.42

contrast ratio on black background

Element	AA	AAA
Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1	Passes	Passes
Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1	Passes	Passes
UI component needs 3:1	Passes	n/a

At 1.84:1 against white, Pastel Blue is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 11.42:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.

Check Pastel Blue against another color →

Color vision

How Pastel Blue looks with color blindness

Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.

Protanopia

About 1% of men

actual

#AFB0F1

Pastel Blue shifts slightly here. ΔE 9.5

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men

actual

#AEABED

Pastel Blue shifts noticeably here. ΔE 11.4

No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.

Tritanopia

About 1 in 10,000

actual

#A4E6E3

Pastel Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 40.3

No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.

Achromatopsia

About 1 in 30,000

actual

#BFBFBF

Pastel Blue changes substantially here. ΔE 34.6

No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.

To a deuteranope, the most common form, Pastel Blue reads as #AEABED. That is a shift of ΔE 11.4, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. Blues survive red-green deficiency well, which is why so much interface design leans on them. The form to watch here is tritanopia, though at roughly 1 in 10,000 it affects far fewer people. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 40.3. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Pastel Blue in code

:root {
  --pastel-blue: #A2BFFE;
}

.example {
  color: var(--pastel-blue);
}

// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      'pastel-blue': '#A2BFFE',
    },
  },
}

// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let pastelBlue = Color(
    red: 0.635,
    green: 0.749,
    blue: 0.996
)

<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="pastel_blue">#A2BFFE</color>

// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const pastelBlue = Color(0xFFA2BFFE);

Meaning

What is the Meaning of Pastel Blue Color?

Pastel Blue reads as trust and institution. It is saturated enough to dominate anything it sits beside, and at 98% saturation with a perceptual lightness of 77 it behaves as a cool color, which is the practical reason it turns up where it does.

What are Other Names of Pastel Blue Color?

The closest CSS keyword is LightSkyBlue (#87CEFA), though it is not a match: Delta-E 17.1 means the difference is visible side by side. For print the nearest Pantone is PMS 2717 C at #A5BAE0. The name Pastel Blue comes from the community color-name index rather than a standards body, so you will meet it under other names elsewhere.

How is Pastel Blue Color Made?

On a screen Pastel Blue is made by additive light: 162 red, 191 green and 254 blue out of 255, with blue leading and 162 as the floor. In print it is subtractive instead, mixed as 36%, 25%, 0%, 0%. Starting from the pure hue at 221 degrees, Pastel Blue is a tint, so it is that hue with white added.