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Light Sea Green

Hex #20B2AA, rgb(32 178 170). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

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About Light Sea Green

Light Sea Green is a medium moderately saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #20B2AA. In RGB it is made of 32 red, 178 green and 170 blue; in HSL its hue is 177°, with 70% saturation and 41% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 69.1%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lightseagreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.62:1 and against black 8.01:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Light 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 Light Sea Green

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

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Light Sea Green textSmall text on white

On white2.62:1

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

APCA Lc 51

Light Sea Green textSmall text on black

On black8.01:1

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

APCA Lc -51

Black text on Light Sea Green (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#A7A8AA
  • Deuteranopia#949AAB
  • Tritanopia#00B7AF
  • Protanomaly#92A9AA
  • Deuteranomaly#86A1AB
  • Tritanomaly#00B4AC
  • Achromatopsia#A0A0A0

Colors similar to Light Sea Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Light Sea Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.light-sea-green {
  color: lightseagreen; /* #20B2AA */
  background-color: rgb(32 178 170);
  border-color: oklch(69.1% 0.114 189);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-light-sea-green-500, text-light-sea-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-light-sea-green-50: #F3FCFB;
  --color-light-sea-green-100: #DEF2F0;
  --color-light-sea-green-200: #BEE4E0;
  --color-light-sea-green-300: #86CFC9;
  --color-light-sea-green-400: #20B2AA;
  --color-light-sea-green-500: #009A92;
  --color-light-sea-green-600: #00837D;
  --color-light-sea-green-700: #006A65;
  --color-light-sea-green-800: #005551;
  --color-light-sea-green-900: #004541;
  --color-light-sea-green-950: #001B19;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#20B2AA] text-[#000000]">…</div>