Robin Egg Blue #8AF1FE

About this color

#8AF1FE is a very light, moderately saturated teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 90%, its chroma 0.098 and its hue 206°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Robin Egg Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 16.09:1.

Colors that go with Robin Egg Blue

Matches found by rotating Robin Egg Blue around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Robin Egg Blue

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Robin Egg Blue, closest first.

• Vector and Kernel
• Sensor Render
• Binary Uplink
• Sensor Grid
• Sensor Stack
• Plasma Glow
• Deep Library
• Cloud and Dove

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Robin Egg Blue, with their ΔE distance.

• Robin's Egg Blue #98EFF9 ΔE 0.013
• Robin's Egg #6DEDFD ΔE 0.027
• Pale Turquoise #AFEEEE ΔE 0.038
• Diamond #B9F2FF ΔE 0.047
• Bright Cyan #41FDFE ΔE 0.050
• Bright Light Blue #26F7FD ΔE 0.053
• Powder Blue #B0E0E6 ΔE 0.054
• Pale Sky Blue #BDF6FE ΔE 0.054

More about Robin Egg Blue

• Shades of teal or cyan
• What teal or cyan means

How to make Robin Egg Blue

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 1 part blue

Recipe result: #C0E0F8, a difference of ΔE 0.064 from Robin Egg Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Robin Egg Blue in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Robin Egg Blue

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #E9F9FB

   oklch(97.1% 0.017 205.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #CFF1F6

   oklch(93.5% 0.036 207.4)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #8AF1FE

   oklch(90% 0.098 206.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #3CD7E8

   oklch(80.8% 0.126 206)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00B5C6

   oklch(70.6% 0.121 206.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009BA9

   oklch(63% 0.108 206.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #00838F

   oklch(55.7% 0.095 206.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #006E78

   oklch(49.1% 0.084 205.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005A63

   oklch(42.7% 0.073 206.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004B52

    oklch(37.7% 0.064 205.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002D31

    oklch(27.1% 0.046 204.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Robin Egg Blue with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.