Light Sea Green #20B2AA

Light Sea Green color (#20B2AA)

Light Sea Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword lightseagreen anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #20B2AA, which is rgb(32, 178, 170) in RGB.

It is a medium, moderately saturated cool color with a hue angle of 177° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 69% in OKLCH. On a light sea green background, black text gives the higher contrast at 8.01:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Light Sea Green color codes

CSS name lightseagreen
HEX #20B2AA
HEX (8-digit) #20B2AAFF
RGB rgb(32, 178, 170)
HSL hsl(177, 70%, 41%)
HSV / HSB hsv(177, 82%, 70%)
OKLCH oklch(69.1% 0.1142 189)
CMYK cmyk(82%, 0%, 4.5%, 30.2%)

Contrast with white and black

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

Aa Sample text
Light Sea Green text on white
2.62:1 WCAG Lc 50.6 APCA Fails AA
Aa Sample text
Light Sea Green text on black
8.01:1 WCAG Lc -51.3 APCA Passes AA
Aa Sample text
White text on light sea green
2.62:1 WCAG Lc -55.8 APCA Fails AA
Aa Sample text
Black text on light sea green
8.01:1 WCAG Lc 53.4 APCA Passes AA

Tints and shades of light sea green

Tints mix light sea green 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 light sea green

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

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Light Sea Green with color blindness

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

Using light sea green in CSS

.element {
  color: lightseagreen;
  background-color: #20b2aa;
  border-color: rgb(32 178 170 / 50%);
  outline-color: oklch(69.1% 0.1142 189);
}

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