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#8bc9df color: Gossamer Threads

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196°
100%

OKLCH

80.2%
0.070
222°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 13%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.82:1 · Below AALc -38
Black text11.52:1 · AALc 70

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About #8bc9df

#8bc9df is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.2% lightness, 0.07 chroma and a hue of 222°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.82:1 contrast and black text 11.52:1, 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: #8bc9df mixed with white

  1. 8bc9df
  2. 97cee2
  3. a3d4e6
  4. afd9e9
  5. badfec
  6. c6e4ef
  7. d1eaf2
  8. ddeff6
  9. e8f4f9
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8bc9df mixed with black

  1. 8bc9df
  2. 78aec2
  3. 6695a5
  4. 547c8a
  5. 43646f
  6. 324c56
  7. 23363d
  8. 142227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010202

Calmer: #8bc9df with less saturation

  1. 8bc9df
  2. 91c8dc
  3. 97c7d9
  4. 9cc6d5
  5. a1c5d2
  6. a6c4cf
  7. abc3cb
  8. b0c2c8
  9. b5c0c5
  10. babfc1