Aquamarine #7FFFD4

Aquamarine color (#7FFFD4)

Aquamarine is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword aquamarine anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #7FFFD4, which is rgb(127, 255, 212) in RGB.

It is a very light, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 160° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 92% in OKLCH. On a aquamarine background, black text gives the higher contrast at 17.15:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Aquamarine color codes

CSS name aquamarine
HEX #7FFFD4
HEX (8-digit) #7FFFD4FF
RGB rgb(127, 255, 212)
HSL hsl(160, 100%, 75%)
HSV / HSB hsv(160, 50%, 100%)
OKLCH oklch(91.5% 0.1304 169)
CMYK cmyk(50.2%, 0%, 16.9%, 0%)

Contrast with white and black

WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for aquamarine used as text and as a background.

Aa Sample text
Aquamarine text on white
1.22:1 WCAG Lc 10.8 APCA Fails AA
Aa Sample text
Aquamarine text on black
17.15:1 WCAG Lc -93.3 APCA Passes AA
Aa Sample text
White text on aquamarine
1.22:1 WCAG Lc -12.6 APCA Fails AA
Aa Sample text
Black text on aquamarine
17.15:1 WCAG Lc 92.7 APCA Passes AA

Tints and shades of aquamarine

Tints mix aquamarine with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.

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Colors that go with aquamarine

Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.

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Aquamarine with color blindness

Approximately how aquamarine appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.

Using aquamarine in CSS

.element {
  color: aquamarine;
  background-color: #7fffd4;
  border-color: rgb(127 255 212 / 50%);
  outline-color: oklch(91.5% 0.1304 169);
}

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