What color is Light Sea Green?
Light sea green is a medium-toned teal with blue and green in roughly equal measure, hex #20B2AA, clear and clean rather than murky or pale. It shares the quality of shallow tropical seawater seen over white sand.
What is the meaning of the color Light Sea Green?
The CSS color name ‘light sea green’ was formally defined in 1996 when the World Wide Web Consortium introduced the standard 16 named web colors expanded to 140 in CSS 2.1, giving this shade an official role in digital design. The hue itself belongs to the broader teal family, a color associated with 1950s American interior design, when teal and turquoise appeared heavily in kitchenware and home appliances. By the 1990s, teal had become prominent enough that the Jacksonville Jaguars adopted it as a primary team color when the NFL franchise launched in 1995. The CSS specification anchored light sea green as a distinct named value, separating it from the darker teal and lighter medium aquamarine in the official palette.
What colors go with Light Sea Green?
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Conversions & Codes
| Format | Value | CSS |
|---|---|---|
| HEX | #20B2AA |
color: #20B2AA;
|
| RGB | 32, 178, 170 |
color: rgb(32, 178, 170);
|
| RGB Percentage | 13%, 70%, 67% |
color: rgb(13%, 70%, 67%);
|
| CMYK | 82%, 0%, 4%, 30% | Not supported in CSS |
| HSL | 177°, 70%, 41% |
color: hsl(177, 70%, 41%);
|
| HSV | 177°, 82%, 70% | Not supported in CSS |
| CIE-LAB | 33, -29, 3 |
color: lab(33% -29 3);
|
| Decimal | 2142890 | Not supported in CSS |
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CSS & Dev Snippets
.light-sea-green {
color: #20B2AA;
}
$light-sea-green: #20B2AA;
rgb(32, 178, 170)