Sea Shell color (#FFF5EE)
Sea Shell is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword seashell
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #FFF5EE, which is rgb(255, 245, 238) in RGB.
It is a very light neutral and a perceived lightness of 98% in OKLCH. On a sea shell background, black text gives the higher contrast at 19.54:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Sea Shell color codes
| CSS name | seashell |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #FFF5EE |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #FFF5EEFF |
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| RGB | rgb(255, 245, 238) |
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| HSL | hsl(25, 100%, 97%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(25, 7%, 100%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(97.6% 0.0143 57.6) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(0%, 3.9%, 6.7%, 0%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for sea shell used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of sea shell
Tints mix sea shell 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 sea shell
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Sea Shell with color blindness
Approximately how sea shell appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using sea shell in CSS
.element {
color: seashell;
background-color: #fff5ee;
border-color: rgb(255 245 238 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(97.6% 0.0143 57.6);
}Similar named colors
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