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Medium Sea Green

Hex #3CB371, rgb(60 179 113). A green CSS named color.

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About Medium Sea Green

Medium Sea Green is a medium saturated green with the hex code #3CB371. In RGB it is made of 60 red, 179 green and 113 blue; in HSL its hue is 147°, with 50% saturation and 47% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 68.4%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "mediumseagreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 2.67:1 and against black 7.88:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Medium 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 Medium 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 Medium Sea Green with white and black. The readable text color on Medium Sea Green is black.

Medium Sea Green textSmall text on white

On white2.67:1

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

APCA Lc 51

Medium Sea Green textSmall text on black

On black7.88:1

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

APCA Lc -50

Black text on Medium Sea Green (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#B2A56D
  • Deuteranopia#A39A75
  • Tritanopia#00B1A2
  • Protanomaly#9DA86F
  • Deuteranomaly#94A174
  • Tritanomaly#26B28A
  • Achromatopsia#9E9E9E

Colors similar to Medium Sea Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Medium Sea Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.medium-sea-green {
  color: mediumseagreen; /* #3CB371 */
  background-color: rgb(60 179 113);
  border-color: oklch(68.4% 0.144 155);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-medium-sea-green-500, text-medium-sea-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-medium-sea-green-50: #F4FDF7;
  --color-medium-sea-green-100: #E0F3E5;
  --color-medium-sea-green-200: #C1E5CC;
  --color-medium-sea-green-300: #8DD0A4;
  --color-medium-sea-green-400: #3CB371;
  --color-medium-sea-green-500: #009D59;
  --color-medium-sea-green-600: #00874C;
  --color-medium-sea-green-700: #006C3C;
  --color-medium-sea-green-800: #00572F;
  --color-medium-sea-green-900: #004725;
  --color-medium-sea-green-950: #001C0B;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#3CB371] text-[#000000]">…</div>