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#8ff8eb

a light, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Pale Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Meadow Lagoon

RGB
143, 248, 235
HSL
173°, 88%, 77%
CMYK
42, 0, 5, 3
Luminance
0.7897

#8ff8eb is a light electric cyan, 173° on the wheel and 84/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.79:1). As text it scores 1.25:1 on white — use #088576 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(173 88% 77%)rgb(143 248 235)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8ff8eb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8ff8eb
Hue
173°
cyan
Saturation
88%
electric
Lightness
77%
light
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
86%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7897
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
84/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.79:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 7.4
Chroma
33.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.912
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 17
Web-safe
#99FFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue173° of 360°
Saturation88%
Lightness77%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8ff8eb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool84% 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
Red7%
Green85%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#8ff8eb
HEX (8-digit)#8ff8ebff
RGBrgb(143, 248, 235)
RGBArgba(143, 248, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(173, 88%, 77%)
HSV / HSBhsv(173, 42%, 97%)
HWBhwb(173 56% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(42%, 0%, 5%, 3%)
LABlab(91.2 -33.5 -3.3)
LCHlch(91.2 33.7 185.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.912 0.100 185.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(59.88, 78.97, 90.67)
Decimal9435371
Display P3color(display-p3 0.561 0.973 0.922)
Web-safe#99FFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8ff8eb;
background-color: #8ff8eb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8ff8eb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8ff8eb] bg-[#8ff8eb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8ff8eb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.561, green: 0.973, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.561, green: 0.973, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8FF8EB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8FF8EB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8FF8EB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 248, 143)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(143, 248, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(143, 248, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 143, 248, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5608f, 0.9725f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{143,248,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8ff8eb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8ff8eb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#08786A, #D3EEEB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8ff8eb 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: #F2FDFB;
  --brand-100: #E5FAF8;
  --brand-200: #C4F8F1;
  --brand-300: #8ff8eb;
  --brand-400: #61F5E3;
  --brand-500: #2CF2D9;
  --brand-600: #0EE6CC;
  --brand-700: #0CC0AA;
  --brand-800: #0A9A88;
  --brand-900: #0C6F63;
  --brand-950: #07453E;
  --brand: #8ff8eb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE7;
  --brand-hover: #6EF6E5;
  --brand-pressed: #4CF4DF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDFB',
        100: '#E5FAF8',
        200: '#C4F8F1',
        300: '#8ff8eb',
        400: '#61F5E3',
        500: '#2CF2D9',
        600: '#0EE6CC',
        700: '#0CC0AA',
        800: '#0A9A88',
        900: '#0C6F63',
        950: '#07453E',
        DEFAULT: '#8ff8eb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDFB,
  '100': #E5FAF8,
  '200': #C4F8F1,
  '300': #8ff8eb,
  '400': #61F5E3,
  '500': #2CF2D9,
  '600': #0EE6CC,
  '700': #0CC0AA,
  '800': #0A9A88,
  '900': #0C6F63,
  '950': #07453E,
);
$brand-base: #8ff8eb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FAF8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C4F8F1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8ff8eb", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#61F5E3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2CF2D9", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0EE6CC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0CC0AA", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0A9A88", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0C6F63", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#07453E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8ff8eb · 16.79:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.25:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.79:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8ff8eb as text scores 1.25:1 on white and 16.79:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #08786A at 4.30:1.

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
#088576 · 4.54:1
AA on white−49% L
#088576
The quick fox
#066358 · 7.16:1
AAA on white−56% L
#066358
The quick fox
#8ff8eb · 16.79:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8ff8eb
The quick fox
#8ff8eb · 16.79:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8ff8eb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0AA793 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
#8ff8eb on white: 1.25:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8ff8eb on black: 16.79:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8ff8eb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8ff8eb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.25:1AaAa
Slate 501.20:1AaAa
Slate 1001.14:1AaAa
Slate 2001.01:1AaAa
Slate 3001.19:1AaAa
Slate 4002.05:1AaAa
Slate 5003.81:1AaAa
Slate 6006.06:1AaAa
Slate 7008.28:1AaAa
Slate 80011.70:1AaAa
Slate 90014.28:1AaAa
Black16.79:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFEEEB
deuteranopia · #DDE0EC
tritanopia · #63FCF4

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. #8ff8eb is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FDFB
#E5FAF8
#C4F8F1
#8ff8eb
#61F5E3
#2CF2D9
#0EE6CC
#0CC0AA
#0A9A88
#0C6F63
#07453E
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F2FDFBDarkest = 950 · #07453EText 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 0.025 185.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 185.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.060 185.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.078 185.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.092 185.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.100 185.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.100 185.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.094 185.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.084 185.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.070 185.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.055 185.4);
}

Colors that work with #8ff8eb

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#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B91
Captions on the surface
Accent#C3094F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#08786A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FDFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#6EF6E5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4CF4DF
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9DFEF2
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 #8ff8eb

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #08786A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0AA793

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight23/100
  • 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#F88F9C
Analogous left#8FF8B7
Analogous right#8FD1F8
Split-complement 1#F88FD1
Split-complement 2#F8B78F
Triadic 1#EB8FF8
Triadic 2#F8EB8F
Tetradic#B78FF8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°173°

#8ff8eb sits at 173°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red56.1%
Green97.3%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
143
0x8f
G · 0–255
248
0xf8
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan42.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow5.2%
Key (black)2.7%

Total ink coverage is 50%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#8ff8eb text on a black background

contrast 16.79:1

Card sample

#8ff8eb text on a white background

contrast 1.25:1

Card sample

#8ff8eb on grey

1.14:1

#8ff8eb on its own surface

1.18:1

#8ff8eb on its dark surface

12.87:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8ff8eb;
Background color
Panel with #8ff8eb background
background-color: #8ff8eb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8ff8eb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(143, 248, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(143, 248, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8ff8eb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8ff8eb, #8FBFF8);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8ff8eb, #8FA5F8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8ff8eb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8ff8eb;
caret-color: #8ff8eb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8ff8eb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FDFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8ff8eb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8ff8eb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8ff8eb 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(143, 248, 235, 0.5)
rgb(143 248 235 / 50%)
#8ff8eb80
hsl(173 88% 77% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8ff8eb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8ff8eb1a#F4FEFD
20%#8ff8eb33#E9FEFB
40%#8ff8eb66#D2FCF7
60%#8ff8eb99#BCFBF3
80%#8ff8ebcc#A5F9EF

Gradients from #8ff8eb

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, #C9FCF5, #8ff8eb 45%, #08786A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8ff8eb, #72A4F6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8ff8eb, #F88F9C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E6FDFA 0%, #8ff8eb 45%, #08786A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAFA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #BFFBD1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #ACD6FA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #08786A 0%, transparent 65%), #8ff8eb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8ff8eb

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.

#8ff8eb 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 16.79:1.

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.

#8ff8eb, answered

What color is #8ff8eb?

#8ff8eb is a light electric cyan, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 7.4). It sits at 173° on the hue wheel with 88% saturation and 77% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #8ff8eb?

rgb(143, 248, 235) — 143 red, 248 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 56.1% / 97.3% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #8ff8eb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(173, 88%, 77%) and hsv(173, 42%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8ff8eb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7897 and perceived brightness is 86%, so black text on it reaches 16.79:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8ff8eb?

Black. It scores 16.79:1 against #8ff8eb, versus 1.25:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8ff8eb accessible on a white background?

#8ff8eb on white scores 1.25:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #088576 to reach 4.5:1, or #066358 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8ff8eb?

#F88F9C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F88FD1 and #F8B78F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8ff8eb?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE7 for borders, #4B9B91 for secondary text, #C3094F as an accent and #08786A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #8FF8B7 and #8FD1F8 stays calm, while #F88F9C is the loudest partner.

What is #8ff8eb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(42%, 0%, 5%, 3%). 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 #8ff8eb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 84 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #8FF8C5; nudged cooler, #8EDFF9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8ff8eb?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 17 away. That is a visible difference, so define #8ff8eb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #8ff8eb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8ff8eb] or text-[#8ff8eb], 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 #8ff8eb with 50% opacity?

rgba(143, 248, 235, 0.5), or #8ff8eb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C7FCF5; over black, #487C76.

Is #8ff8eb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFFF, ΔE2000 5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8ff8eb 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 #8ff8eb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C9FCF5, #8ff8eb 45%, #08786A). For more colour, a short hue run to #72A4F6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8ff8eb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8ff8eb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.