CSS named color

Sea Green #2E8B57

Sea Green is green. Below: every color format, WCAG contrast against black and white, its tints, shades and tones, and the harmonies that pair with it.

Color values

Contrast & accessibility

WCAG contrast ratio of Sea Green used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
4.25:1

On white

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✓
Aa The quick brown fox
4.95:1

On black

AA ✓ AAA ✕ AA Large ✓

Tints, shades & tones

Systematic variations of Sea Green — click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Simulated colour vision

How Sea Green reads under the four common colour-vision deficiencies, using the standard Machado (2009) matrices at full severity. A simulation, not a measurement of any one person's vision; the point is whether this colour still does its job when hue drops out.

Typical vision#2E8B57

Tailwind-style ramp

Eleven steps from 50 to 950 with the hue and saturation of Sea Green held and only lightness stepped. Computed, not curated: the 500 step sits closest to the source, which is where Tailwind puts a brand colour.

Color harmonies

Palettes built from Sea Green by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Use Sea Green in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#2e8b57], border-[#2e8b57].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

Turn Sea Green into a complete shadcn/ui palette — light & dark, contrast-checked, one-command install.

Extract a theme →

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