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Pictured: Sky blue, the closest color we have a photo of (#87CEEB)
rgb(128, 218, 235)
#80DAEB

Medium Sky Blue #80DAEB RGB Color Code

Medium Sky Blue (#80DAEB) is a moderately saturated, light cyan. In RGB it is made of 50% red, 85% green and 92% blue (R 128, G 218, B 235). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 190°, 73% saturation and 71% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.607, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 46% cyan, 7% magenta, 0% yellow and 8% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Medium Sky Blue color codes

#80DAEB in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #80DAEB Valid CSS
RGB rgb(128, 218, 235) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(190, 73%, 71%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(190, 46%, 92%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(190 50% 8%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(46%, 7%, 0%, 8%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(83.81% 0.0894 211.05) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(83.81% -0.0766 -0.0461) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(81.89% -24.86 -17.28) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(81.89% 30.28 214.8) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5856 0.8461 0.9118) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.4897 0.6073 0.8774) Valid CSS
Decimal 8444651 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.6073. Nearest web-safe color: #99CCFF.

Mix Medium Sky Blue with other colors

See what #80DAEB makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintMedium Sky Blue and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightMedium Sky Blue and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintMedium Sky Blue and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMedium Sky Blue blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Medium Sky Blue in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--medium-sky-blue: #80DAEB;
Sass variable$medium-sky-blue: #80DAEB;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-medium-sky-blue: #80DAEB; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'medium-sky-blue': '#80DAEB' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0.855, blue: 0.922)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0.855, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="medium_sky_blue">#FF80DAEB</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF80DAEB)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #80DAEB (13.15:1, AAA). Here is how #80DAEB does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.60:1 on white
APCA Lc 27
Fails AATry #1E8292
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
13.15:1 on black
APCA Lc -76
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Medium Sky Blue

#80DAEB next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#80DAEB stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Medium Sky Blue

The Sky Blue crayon

Medium sky blue is the name Wikipedia gives to Crayola's Sky Blue crayon. Crayola first made that crayon in 1958, and it comes in the boxes of 32, 48, 64, 96 and 120. The Wikipedia article on sky blue shows it as #80DAEB. The word medium keeps it apart from the CSS keyword sky blue, #87CEEB.

Two codes for one crayon

Crayon colors on screens are only estimates. The current list of Crayola colors gives the standard crayon as #76D7EA, which is a little deeper. #80DAEB still shows up there for some special sets, such as a glitter crayon. Both are pale blues with a touch of green.

White text fails on this color at 1.60 to 1. Black text reaches 13.15 to 1. For a stronger blue in the same family, try deep sky blue.

Medium Sky Blue in a user interface

A sample app screen with #80DAEB as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #80DAEB as it is. On the light theme, #80DAEB is too hard to read as text (1.60:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #1E8292 there (4.50:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Medium Sky Blue

These schemes turn the hue of #80DAEB around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#80DAEB#EB9180

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#80EBC7this#80DAEB#80A5EB

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#80DAEB#EB80DA#DAEB80

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#80DAEB#EB80A5#EBC780

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#80DAEB#9180EB#EB9180#DAEB80

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#80DAEB#C780EB#EB9180#A5EB80

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#0E4C58#198AA0#2EC2DE#75D7E9#BDECF5

Gradients with Medium Sky Blue

Four CSS gradients made from #80DAEB. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #E7F8FB, #80DAEB);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #80DAEB, #1F3C41);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #80EBC7, #80DAEB, #80A5EB);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #80DAEB, #C3B1E3, #EB80DA);

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Shades, tints and tones of Medium Sky Blue

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Medium Sky Blue sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    E7FBFF
  2. 100
    CEF5FD
  3. 200
    B0E5F0
  4. 300
    80DAEB
  5. 400
    5DB2C1
  6. 500
    3794A5
  7. 600
    127989
  8. 700
    00606E
  9. 800
    004B56
  10. 900
    003740
  11. 950
    072126

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #80DAEB in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6027 Light green#81C0BB, close (ΔE 8.3)Tailwind CSSsky-300 #7DD3FC, very close (ΔE 3.6)CSS color namesskyblue #87CEEB, very close (ΔE 3.3)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of cyan or search the color library.