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Dark Sea Green

Hex #8FBC8F, rgb(143 188 143). A green CSS named color.

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About Dark Sea Green

Dark Sea Green is a light moderately saturated green with the hex code #8FBC8F. In RGB it is made of 143 red, 188 green and 143 blue; in HSL its hue is 120°, with 25% saturation and 65% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 75.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darkseagreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.15:1 and against black 9.76:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Dark Sea Green mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Dark Sea Green 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Dark Sea Green

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Dark Sea Green with white and black. The readable text color on Dark Sea Green is black.

Dark Sea Green textSmall text on white

On white2.15:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 42

Dark Sea Green textSmall text on black

On black9.76:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -60

Black text on Dark Sea Green (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Dark Sea Green appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#BEB48C
  • Deuteranopia#B7AF91
  • Tritanopia#8BB9B0
  • Protanomaly#B3B58E
  • Deuteranomaly#AFB291
  • Tritanomaly#8CBB9F
  • Achromatopsia#B1B1B1

Colors similar to Dark Sea Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Sea Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.dark-sea-green {
  color: darkseagreen; /* #8FBC8F */
  background-color: rgb(143 188 143);
  border-color: oklch(75.1% 0.08 144.7);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-sea-green-500, text-dark-sea-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-sea-green-50: #F7FBF7;
  --color-dark-sea-green-100: #EAF3EA;
  --color-dark-sea-green-200: #D6E6D6;
  --color-dark-sea-green-300: #B7D5B7;
  --color-dark-sea-green-400: #8FBC8F;
  --color-dark-sea-green-500: #70A470;
  --color-dark-sea-green-600: #5B8D5C;
  --color-dark-sea-green-700: #477147;
  --color-dark-sea-green-800: #385939;
  --color-dark-sea-green-900: #2D472E;
  --color-dark-sea-green-950: #0A1A0B;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#8FBC8F] text-[#000000]">…</div>