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#8fcae2 color: Gossamer Threads

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197°
100%

OKLCH

80.7%
0.069
225°
  • ≈ Sky blue
  • Sky blue
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • sky-300
  • Black 11%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text1.79:1 · Below AALc -37
Black text11.71:1 · AALc 71

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About #8fcae2

#8fcae2 is a soft light sky blue color. In OKLCH it has 80.7% lightness, 0.069 chroma and a hue of 225°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 1.79:1 contrast and black text 11.71:1, 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: #8fcae2 mixed with white

  1. 8fcae2
  2. 9bcfe5
  3. a6d5e8
  4. b1daeb
  5. bddfee
  6. c8e5f1
  7. d3eaf4
  8. deeff7
  9. e9f4f9
  10. f4fafc

Darker: #8fcae2 mixed with black

  1. 8fcae2
  2. 7cafc4
  3. 6995a8
  4. 577c8c
  5. 456471
  6. 344d57
  7. 24373e
  8. 152227
  9. 070f12
  10. 010203

Calmer: #8fcae2 with less saturation

  1. 8fcae2
  2. 95c9df
  3. 9ac8db
  4. 9fc7d8
  5. a4c6d4
  6. a9c5d1
  7. aec4ce
  8. b3c3ca
  9. b7c2c7
  10. bbc1c3