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#8dcbe3 color: Gossamer Threads

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197°
100%

OKLCH

80.8%
0.072
224°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 11%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.78:1 · Below AALc -37
Black text11.78:1 · AALc 71

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About #8dcbe3

#8dcbe3 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.8% lightness, 0.072 chroma and a hue of 224°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.78:1 contrast and black text 11.78:1, 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: #8dcbe3 mixed with white

  1. 8dcbe3
  2. 99d0e6
  3. a5d5e9
  4. b0dbec
  5. bce0ef
  6. c7e5f1
  7. d2eaf4
  8. def0f7
  9. e9f5fa
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8dcbe3 mixed with black

  1. 8dcbe3
  2. 7ab0c5
  3. 6796a8
  4. 557d8c
  5. 446571
  6. 334d57
  7. 23373f
  8. 142227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010203

Calmer: #8dcbe3 with less saturation

  1. 8dcbe3
  2. 93cae0
  3. 99c9dc
  4. 9ec8d9
  5. a3c7d5
  6. a9c6d2
  7. aec5ce
  8. b2c4cb
  9. b7c3c7
  10. bcc1c4