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#8acae5 color: Gossamer Threads

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198°
100%

OKLCH

80.5%
0.075
226°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 10%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.80:1 · Below AALc -37
Black text11.66:1 · AALc 71

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About #8acae5

#8acae5 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.5% lightness, 0.075 chroma and a hue of 226°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.8:1 contrast and black text 11.66:1, so black text reads better.

The closest named color is Gossamer Threads (#8ac8e2). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is sky-300.

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Lighter: #8acae5 mixed with white

  1. 8acae5
  2. 96cfe8
  3. a2d5ea
  4. aedaed
  5. badff0
  6. c6e5f2
  7. d1eaf5
  8. ddeff8
  9. e8f5fa
  10. f4fafd

Darker: #8acae5 mixed with black

  1. 8acae5
  2. 77afc7
  3. 6595aa
  4. 537c8e
  5. 426472
  6. 324d58
  7. 22373f
  8. 142228
  9. 070f12
  10. 010203

Calmer: #8acae5 with less saturation

  1. 8acae5
  2. 90c9e1
  3. 96c8de
  4. 9cc7da
  5. a1c6d6
  6. a7c5d2
  7. acc4cf
  8. b1c3cb
  9. b6c2c7
  10. bbc0c3