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#8ccae0 color: Gossamer Threads

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196°
100%

OKLCH

80.5%
0.070
222°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 12%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.80:1 · Below AALc -38
Black text11.64:1 · AALc 70

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About #8ccae0

#8ccae0 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.5% lightness, 0.07 chroma and a hue of 222°.

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.

More light sky blue colors

Lighter: #8ccae0 mixed with white

  1. 8ccae0
  2. 98cfe3
  3. a4d5e6
  4. b0daea
  5. bbdfed
  6. c7e5f0
  7. d2eaf3
  8. ddeff6
  9. e8f4f9
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8ccae0 mixed with black

  1. 8ccae0
  2. 79afc3
  3. 6795a6
  4. 557c8a
  5. 436470
  6. 334d56
  7. 23373e
  8. 142227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010202

Calmer: #8ccae0 with less saturation

  1. 8ccae0
  2. 92c9dd
  3. 98c8da
  4. 9dc7d6
  5. a2c6d3
  6. a7c5d0
  7. acc4cc
  8. b1c3c9
  9. b6c1c6
  10. bbc0c2