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#8bcae2 color: Gossamer Threads

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197°
100%

OKLCH

80.5%
0.072
224°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 11%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.80:1 · Below AALc -37
Black text11.64:1 · AALc 70

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About #8bcae2

#8bcae2 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.5% lightness, 0.072 chroma and a hue of 224°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.8:1 contrast and black text 11.64:1, 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: #8bcae2 mixed with white

  1. 8bcae2
  2. 97cfe5
  3. a3d5e8
  4. afdaeb
  5. bbdfee
  6. c6e5f1
  7. d2eaf4
  8. ddeff7
  9. e8f4f9
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8bcae2 mixed with black

  1. 8bcae2
  2. 78afc4
  3. 6695a8
  4. 547c8c
  5. 436471
  6. 324d57
  7. 23373e
  8. 142227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010203

Calmer: #8bcae2 with less saturation

  1. 8bcae2
  2. 91c9df
  3. 97c8db
  4. 9cc7d8
  5. a2c6d4
  6. a7c5d1
  7. acc4cd
  8. b1c3ca
  9. b6c1c6
  10. bac0c3