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#8ecae2 color: Gossamer Threads

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197°
100%

OKLCH

80.6%
0.070
225°
  • ≈ 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 text11.70:1 · AALc 71

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About #8ecae2

#8ecae2 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.6% lightness, 0.07 chroma and a hue of 225°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.8:1 contrast and black text 11.7:1, 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: #8ecae2 mixed with white

  1. 8ecae2
  2. 9acfe5
  3. a5d5e8
  4. b1daeb
  5. bcdfee
  6. c7e5f1
  7. d3eaf4
  8. deeff7
  9. e9f4f9
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8ecae2 mixed with black

  1. 8ecae2
  2. 7bafc4
  3. 6895a8
  4. 567c8c
  5. 446471
  6. 344d57
  7. 24373e
  8. 152227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010203

Calmer: #8ecae2 with less saturation

  1. 8ecae2
  2. 94c9df
  3. 99c8db
  4. 9fc7d8
  5. a4c6d4
  6. a9c5d1
  7. adc4ce
  8. b2c3ca
  9. b7c2c7
  10. bbc1c3