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#08fead

a balanced, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Medium Spring Green

Token name suggestion: Studio Reef

RGB
8, 254, 173
HSL
160°, 99%, 51%
CMYK
97, 0, 32, 0
Luminance
0.7395

#08fead is a balanced electric cyan, 160° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.79:1). As text it scores 1.33:1 on white — use #01865A instead. Nearest name is Medium Spring Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(160 99% 51%)rgb(8 254 173)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #08fead is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#08fead
Hue
160°
cyan
Saturation
99%
electric
Lightness
51%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
80%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7395
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.79:1
Closest name
Medium Spring Green
ΔE2000 2.9
Chroma
72.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.881
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 14.6
Web-safe
#00FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue160° of 360°
Saturation99%
Lightness51%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #08fead.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool79% 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%
Green96%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#08fead
HEX (8-digit)#08feadff
RGBrgb(8, 254, 173)
RGBArgba(8, 254, 173, 1)
HSLhsl(160, 99%, 51%)
HSV / HSBhsv(160, 97%, 100%)
HWBhwb(160 3% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 0%, 32%, 0%)
LABlab(88.9 -68.1 25.0)
LCHlch(88.9 72.5 159.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.881 0.195 161.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(43.08, 73.95, 51.53)
Decimal589485
Display P3color(display-p3 0.031 0.996 0.678)
Web-safe#00FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #08fead;
background-color: #08fead;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #08fead;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#08fead] bg-[#08fead]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #08fead;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.031, green: 0.996, blue: 0.678)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.031, green: 0.996, blue: 0.678, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#08FEAD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF08FEAD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF08FEAD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(173, 254, 8)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(8, 254, 173)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(8, 254, 173)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 8, 254, 173)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0314f, 0.9961f, 0.6784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{8,254,173}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #08fead 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #08fead 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#017F55, #D3EEE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #08fead 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: #F1FEF9;
  --brand-100: #E3FCF4;
  --brand-200: #C0FBE8;
  --brand-300: #8FFFDA;
  --brand-400: #57FEC7;
  --brand-500: #1FFEB5;
  --brand-600: #08fead;
  --brand-700: #01CB88;
  --brand-800: #01A36D;
  --brand-900: #057550;
  --brand-950: #034932;
  --brand: #08fead;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDE;
  --brand-hover: #01E297;
  --brand-pressed: #01BE80;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FEF9',
        100: '#E3FCF4',
        200: '#C0FBE8',
        300: '#8FFFDA',
        400: '#57FEC7',
        500: '#1FFEB5',
        600: '#08fead',
        700: '#01CB88',
        800: '#01A36D',
        900: '#057550',
        950: '#034932',
        DEFAULT: '#08fead',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FEF9,
  '100': #E3FCF4,
  '200': #C0FBE8,
  '300': #8FFFDA,
  '400': #57FEC7,
  '500': #1FFEB5,
  '600': #08fead,
  '700': #01CB88,
  '800': #01A36D,
  '900': #057550,
  '950': #034932,
);
$brand-base: #08fead;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FEF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCF4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C0FBE8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FFFDA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#57FEC7", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#1FFEB5", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#08fead", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#01CB88", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#01A36D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#057550", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#034932", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #08fead · 15.79:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.33:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.79:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #08fead as text scores 1.33:1 on white and 15.79:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #017F55 at 3.79:1.

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
#01865A · 4.61:1
AA on white−25% L
#01865A
The quick fox
#006342 · 7.33:1
AAA on white−32% L
#006342
The quick fox
#08fead · 15.79:1
AA on blackalready passes
#08fead
The quick fox
#08fead · 15.79:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#08fead

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #01AA72 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
#08fead on white: 1.33:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#08fead on black: 15.79:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #08fead as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #08fead.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.33:1AaAa
Slate 501.27:1AaAa
Slate 1001.21:1AaAa
Slate 2001.08:1AaAa
Slate 3001.12:1AaAa
Slate 4001.93:1AaAa
Slate 5003.58:1AaAa
Slate 6005.70:1AaAa
Slate 7007.79:1AaAa
Slate 80011.00:1AaAa
Slate 90013.42:1AaAa
Black15.79:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FAEAA8
deuteranopia · #E2D8B2
tritanopia · #00FDE9

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. #08fead is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FEF9
#E3FCF4
#C0FBE8
#8FFFDA
#57FEC7
#1FFEB5
#08fead
#01CB88
#01A36D
#057550
#034932
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F1FEF9Darkest = 950 · #034932Text 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 0.049 161.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.078 161.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.117 161.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.152 161.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.179 161.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.195 161.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.195 161.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.183 161.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.164 161.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.137 161.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.107 161.1);
}

Colors that work with #08fead

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDDE
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B80
Captions on the surface
Accent#FF0797
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#017F55
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FFF7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#01E297
One step down in lightness
Pressed#01BE80
Two steps down
Disabled#ACCAC0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#1CFFB4
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
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Data
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GlobexActive

How to use #08fead

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #017F55
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #01AA72

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight49/100
  • 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#FE0859
Analogous left#08FE32
Analogous right#08D4FE
Split-complement 1#FE08D4
Split-complement 2#FE3208
Triadic 1#AD08FE
Triadic 2#FEAD08
Tetradic#3208FE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°160°

#08fead sits at 160°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red3.1%
Green99.6%
Blue67.8%
R · 0–255
8
0x08
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
173
0xad

CMYK percentages

Cyan96.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow31.9%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 129%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#08fead text on a black background

contrast 15.79:1

Card sample

#08fead text on a white background

contrast 1.33:1

Card sample

#08fead on grey

1.21:1

#08fead on its own surface

1.26:1

#08fead on its dark surface

12.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #08fead;
Background color
Panel with #08fead background
background-color: #08fead;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #08fead;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(8, 254, 173, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(8, 254, 173, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #08fead;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #08fead, #08ABFE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #08fead, #086EFE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #08fead;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #08fead;
caret-color: #08fead;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #08fead;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FFF7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #08fead;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#08fead 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #08fead 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, 254, 173, 0.5)
rgb(8 254 173 / 50%)
#08fead80
hsl(160 99% 51% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #08fead 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#08fead1a#E6FFF7
20%#08fead33#CEFFEF
40%#08fead66#9CFFDE
60%#08fead99#6BFECE
80%#08feadcc#39FEBD

Gradients from #08fead

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, #45FEC1, #08fead 45%, #017F55);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #08fead, #0186E7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #08fead, #FE0859);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #64FECB 0%, #08fead 45%, #017F55 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #3BFE4C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #27C8FE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #017F55 0%, transparent 65%), #08fead;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #08fead

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.

#08fead 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 15.79:1.

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.

#08fead, answered

What color is #08fead?

#08fead is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Medium Spring Green (ΔE2000 2.9). It sits at 160° on the hue wheel with 99% saturation and 51% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #08fead?

rgb(8, 254, 173) — 8 red, 254 green and 173 blue out of 255, or 3.1% / 99.6% / 67.8% by channel.

What is #08fead in HSL and HSV?

hsl(160, 99%, 51%) and hsv(160, 97%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #08fead a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7395 and perceived brightness is 80%, so black text on it reaches 15.79:1.

Should I use black or white text on #08fead?

Black. It scores 15.79:1 against #08fead, versus 1.33:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #08fead accessible on a white background?

#08fead on white scores 1.33:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #01865A to reach 4.5:1, or #006342 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #08fead?

#FE0859 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FE08D4 and #FE3208, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #08fead?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDE for borders, #4B9B80 for secondary text, #FF0797 as an accent and #017F55 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #08FE32 and #08D4FE stays calm, while #FE0859 is the loudest partner.

What is #08fead in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 0%, 32%, 0%). 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 #08fead warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 79 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #08FE53; nudged cooler, #07F6FF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #08fead?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 14.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #08fead as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #08fead in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#08fead] or text-[#08fead], 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 #08fead with 50% opacity?

rgba(8, 254, 173, 0.5), or #08fead80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #84FFD6; over black, #047F57.

Is #08fead a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #00FF99, ΔE2000 3.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #08fead 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 #08fead?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #45FEC1, #08fead 45%, #017F55). For more colour, a short hue run to #0186E7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #08fead in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #08fead at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.