Medium Sea Green #3CB371

Medium Sea Green color (#3CB371)

Medium Sea Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword mediumseagreen anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #3CB371, which is rgb(60, 179, 113) in RGB.

It is a medium, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 147° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 68% in OKLCH. On a medium sea green background, black text gives the higher contrast at 7.87:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Medium Sea Green color codes

CSS name mediumseagreen
HEX #3CB371
HEX (8-digit) #3CB371FF
RGB rgb(60, 179, 113)
HSL hsl(147, 50%, 47%)
HSV / HSB hsv(147, 67%, 70%)
OKLCH oklch(68.4% 0.144 155)
CMYK cmyk(66.5%, 0%, 36.9%, 29.8%)

Contrast with white and black

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

Aa Sample text
Medium Sea Green text on white
2.66:1 WCAG Lc 51.5 APCA Fails AA
Aa Sample text
Medium Sea Green text on black
7.87:1 WCAG Lc -50.4 APCA Passes AA
Aa Sample text
White text on medium sea green
2.66:1 WCAG Lc -56.6 APCA Fails AA
Aa Sample text
Black text on medium sea green
7.87:1 WCAG Lc 52.6 APCA Passes AA

Tints and shades of medium sea green

Tints mix medium 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 medium sea green

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

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Medium Sea Green with color blindness

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

Using medium sea green in CSS

.element {
  color: mediumseagreen;
  background-color: #3cb371;
  border-color: rgb(60 179 113 / 50%);
  outline-color: oklch(68.4% 0.144 155);
}

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