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#0894af

a dark, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Cadet Blue

Token name suggestion: Slate Lagoon

RGB
8, 148, 175
HSL
190°, 91%, 36%
CMYK
95, 15, 0, 31
Luminance
0.2433

#0894af is a dark electric cyan, 190° on the wheel and 92/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.87:1). As text it scores 3.58:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Cadet Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(190 91% 36%)rgb(8 148 175)Base step 800AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0894af is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0894af
Hue
190°
cyan
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
36%
dark
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
50%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2433
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
92/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
5.87:1
Closest name
Cadet Blue
ΔE2000 10
Chroma
32.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.615
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 10.3
Web-safe
#009999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue190° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness36%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0894af.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool92% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red0%
Green87%
Blue13%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#0894af
HEX (8-digit)#0894afff
RGBrgb(8, 148, 175)
RGBArgba(8, 148, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(190, 91%, 36%)
HSV / HSBhsv(190, 95%, 69%)
HWBhwb(190 3% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(95%, 15%, 0%, 31%)
LABlab(56.4 -22.7 -23.3)
LCHlch(56.4 32.6 225.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.615 0.109 217.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(18.42, 24.32, 44.27)
Decimal562351
Display P3color(display-p3 0.031 0.580 0.686)
Web-safe#009999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0894af;
background-color: #0894af;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0894af;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0894af] bg-[#0894af]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0894af;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.031, green: 0.580, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.031, green: 0.580, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0894AF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0894AF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0894AF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 148, 8)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(8, 148, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(8, 148, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 8, 148, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0314f, 0.5804f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{8,148,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0894af 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0894af 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#06677A, #D3EAEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0894af h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F2FBFD;
  --brand-100: #E4F7FB;
  --brand-200: #C3F0F9;
  --brand-300: #94EAFA;
  --brand-400: #5EDFF8;
  --brand-500: #28D4F5;
  --brand-600: #0BC6EA;
  --brand-700: #09A5C3;
  --brand-800: #0894af;
  --brand-900: #0A6071;
  --brand-950: #063C46;
  --brand: #0894af;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E5ED;
  --brand-hover: #06778D;
  --brand-pressed: #055A6B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142224;
    --brand-ink: #D3EAEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FBFD',
        100: '#E4F7FB',
        200: '#C3F0F9',
        300: '#94EAFA',
        400: '#5EDFF8',
        500: '#28D4F5',
        600: '#0BC6EA',
        700: '#09A5C3',
        800: '#0894af',
        900: '#0A6071',
        950: '#063C46',
        DEFAULT: '#0894af',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FBFD,
  '100': #E4F7FB,
  '200': #C3F0F9,
  '300': #94EAFA,
  '400': #5EDFF8,
  '500': #28D4F5,
  '600': #0BC6EA,
  '700': #09A5C3,
  '800': #0894af,
  '900': #0A6071,
  '950': #063C46,
);
$brand-base: #0894af;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FBFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4F7FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C3F0F9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#94EAFA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5EDFF8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#28D4F5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0BC6EA", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#09A5C3", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0894af", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0A6071", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#063C46", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #0894af · 5.87:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.58:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.87:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #0894af as text scores 3.58:1 on white and 5.87:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #06677A at 1.82:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#077F97 · 4.68:1
AA on white−5% L
#077F97
The quick fox
#055E70 · 7.39:1
AAA on white−13% L
#055E70
The quick fox
#0894af · 5.87:1
AA on blackalready passes
#0894af
The quick fox
#09A5C3 · 7.18:1
AAA on black+4% L
#09A5C3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0894AF is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#0894af on white: 3.58:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0894af on black: 5.87:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0894af as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0894af.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.58:1AaAa
Slate 503.42:1AaAa
Slate 1003.27:1AaAa
Slate 2002.90:1AaAa
Slate 3002.41:1AaAa
Slate 4001.40:1AaAa
Slate 5001.33:1AaAa
Slate 6002.12:1AaAa
Slate 7002.89:1AaAa
Slate 8004.09:1AaAa
Slate 9004.99:1AaAa
Black5.87:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #828FB0
deuteranopia · #6F81AF
tritanopia · #009D9D

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #0894af is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FBFD
#E4F7FB
#C3F0F9
#94EAFA
#5EDFF8
#28D4F5
#0BC6EA
#09A5C3
#0894af
#0A6071
#063C46
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F2FBFDDarkest = 950 · #063C46Text step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.027 217.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.043 217.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.065 217.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.085 217.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.100 217.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.109 217.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.109 217.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.102 217.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.091 217.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.076 217.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.060 217.0);
}

Colors that work with #0894af

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4F9FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E5ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B8E9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B30414
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#06677A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FAFE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142224
Dark-mode background
Hover#06778D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#055A6B
Two steps down
Disabled#7CA4AB
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#00ABCB
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #0894af

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #06677A
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight64/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#AF2308
Analogous left#08AF77
Analogous right#0841AF
Split-complement 1#AF0841
Split-complement 2#AF7708
Triadic 1#AF0894
Triadic 2#94AF08
Tetradic#7708AF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°190°

#0894af sits at 190°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red3.1%
Green58.0%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
8
0x08
G · 0–255
148
0x94
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan95.4%
Magenta15.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)31.4%

Total ink coverage is 142%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0894af text on a black background

contrast 5.87:1

Card sample

#0894af text on a white background

contrast 3.58:1

Card sample

#0894af on grey

3.27:1

#0894af on its own surface

3.37:1

#0894af on its dark surface

4.57:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0894af;
Background color
Panel with #0894af background
background-color: #0894af;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0894af;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(8, 148, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(8, 148, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0894af;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0894af, #0825AF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0894af, #1508AF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0894af;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0894af;
caret-color: #0894af;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0894af;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FAFE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0894af;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0894af 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0894af over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(8, 148, 175, 0.5)
rgb(8 148 175 / 50%)
#0894af80
hsl(190 91% 36% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0894af 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0894af1a#E6F4F7
20%#0894af33#CEEAEF
40%#0894af66#9CD4DF
60%#0894af99#6BBFCF
80%#0894afcc#39A9BF

Gradients from #0894af

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0BC6EA, #0894af 45%, #06677A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0894af, #071392);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0894af, #AF2308);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #1ED2F5 0%, #0894af 45%, #06677A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F9FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #0AE086 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #093BCC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #06677A 0%, transparent 65%), #0894af;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0894af

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#0894af in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 5.87:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#0894af, answered

What color is #0894af?

#0894af is a dark electric cyan, closest to Cadet Blue (ΔE2000 10). It sits at 190° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 36% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0894af?

rgb(8, 148, 175) — 8 red, 148 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 3.1% / 58% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #0894af in HSL and HSV?

hsl(190, 91%, 36%) and hsv(190, 95%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0894af a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2433 and perceived brightness is 50%, so black text on it reaches 5.87:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0894af?

Black. It scores 5.87:1 against #0894af, versus 3.58:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #0894af accessible on a white background?

#0894af on white scores 3.58:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #077F97 to reach 4.5:1, or #055E70 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #0894af?

#AF2308 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #AF0841 and #AF7708, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0894af?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E5ED for borders, #4B8E9B for secondary text, #B30414 as an accent and #06677A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #08AF77 and #0841AF stays calm, while #AF2308 is the loudest partner.

What is #0894af in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(95%, 15%, 0%, 31%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #0894af warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 92 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #08AF8D; nudged cooler, #0674B1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0894af?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 10.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0894af as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0894af in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0894af] or text-[#0894af], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #0894af with 50% opacity?

rgba(8, 148, 175, 0.5), or #0894af80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #84CAD7; over black, #044A58.

Is #0894af a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #009999, ΔE2000 10.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0894af mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #0894af?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #0BC6EA, #0894af 45%, #06677A). For more colour, a short hue run to #071392 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0894af in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0894af at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.