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#8dcae1 color: Gossamer Threads

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196°
100%

OKLCH

80.6%
0.070
223°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 12%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.80:1 · Below AALc -37
Black text11.67:1 · AALc 71

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About #8dcae1

#8dcae1 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.6% lightness, 0.07 chroma and a hue of 223°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.8:1 contrast and black text 11.67:1, 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: #8dcae1 mixed with white

  1. 8dcae1
  2. 99cfe4
  3. a5d5e7
  4. b0daea
  5. bcdfed
  6. c7e5f0
  7. d2eaf3
  8. ddeff6
  9. e9f4f9
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8dcae1 mixed with black

  1. 8dcae1
  2. 7aafc4
  3. 6795a7
  4. 557c8b
  5. 446470
  6. 334d56
  7. 23373e
  8. 142227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010202

Calmer: #8dcae1 with less saturation

  1. 8dcae1
  2. 93c9de
  3. 98c8da
  4. 9ec7d7
  5. a3c6d4
  6. a8c5d0
  7. adc4cd
  8. b2c3ca
  9. b6c2c6
  10. bbc0c3