Sea Green color (#2E8B57)
Sea Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword seagreen
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #2E8B57, which is rgb(46, 139, 87) in RGB.
It is a medium, moderately saturated cool color with a hue angle of 147° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 57% in OKLCH. On a sea green background, black text gives the higher contrast at 4.94:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Sea Green color codes
| CSS name | seagreen |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #2E8B57 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #2E8B57FF |
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| RGB | rgb(46, 139, 87) |
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| HSL | hsl(147, 50%, 36%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(147, 67%, 55%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(56.9% 0.1187 154.9) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(66.9%, 0%, 37.4%, 45.5%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for sea green used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of sea green
Tints mix 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.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with sea green
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Sea Green with color blindness
Approximately how sea green appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using sea green in CSS
.element {
color: seagreen;
background-color: #2e8b57;
border-color: rgb(46 139 87 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(56.9% 0.1187 154.9);
}Similar named colors
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