Seafoam color: hex codes, shades and palettes

Palettes built around seafoam. Click any swatch to copy its hex code.

Seafoam is #9FE2BF, light green. Below are its shades with hex codes, the values in every common format, and seafoam color palettes to copy.

Seafoam hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

#9FE2BF

HEX: #9FE2BF
RGB: rgb(159, 226, 191)
HSL: hsl(149, 54%, 75%)
OKLCH: oklch(85.8% 0.084 161.2)
On white: 1.49:1
On black: 14.11:1

Shades of seafoam

9 steps from one base color, generated in OKLCH so each step is an equal perceived step rather than an equal numeric one. Click a swatch to copy it.

Seafoam color values

#9FE2BFrgb(159, 226, 191)

Color spaces of #9fe2bf
RGB	159	226	191
HSL	149°	54%	75%
HSV	149°	30%	89%
CMYK	0.30	0.00	0.15	0.11
XYZ	50.8953	65.5228	59.2456
Yxy	65.5228	0.2897	0.3730
CIE-Lab	84.7524	-28.2556	10.4327
Hunter Lab	80.9462	-29.4231	13.2672
OKLCH	85.8%	0.084	161.2°

#9FE2BF is 159 red, 226 green and 191 blue. Its green channel carries the most of it. The nearest of the 216 web safe colors is #99CCCC.

CIE-Lab, XYZ and Yxy are measured against D65, the white point sRGB itself is defined against. Hunter Lab uses the original illuminant C constants, which is what paint and plastics specifications quote, so the two Lab rows are not directly comparable. CMYK is the plain arithmetic conversion: real ink values depend on the press, the paper and the profile.

Base numbers
Base	Red	Green	Blue
Binary	10011111	11100010	10111111
Octal	237	342	277
Decimal	159	226	191
Hex	9F	E2	BF

#9fe2bf mixed with black

Ten even steps of the classic shade ramp, worked out in RGB, which is how the term has always been defined and how other references list it. The OKLCH scale further down this page answers a different question: it steps by equal perceived amounts, so its values are not the same.

#9FE2BF
#8FCBAB
#7FB498
#6F9E85
#5F8772
#4F715F
#3F5A4C
#2F4339
#1F2D26
#0F1613
#000000

#9fe2bf mixed with white

The tint ramp, by the same rule in the other direction.

#9FE2BF
#A8E4C5
#B2E7CB
#BBEAD2
#C5EDD8
#CFF0DF
#D8F3E5
#E2F6EB
#EBF9F2
#F5FCF8
#FFFFFF

Channel shares

Red27.6%
Green39.2%
Blue33.2%

Color schemes

Turned in OKLCH rather than HSL, so every member keeps the lightness and chroma of the original instead of one of them arriving washed out.

Complementary

#9FE2BF
#F7BBE1

Triadic

#9FE2BF
#C8CCFF
#FFC0A8

Analogous

#9FE2BF
#8DE2DE
#BDDCA3

Monochromatic

#307153
#549575
#79BB99
#9FE2BF
#E6FFF1
#E8FFF2
#E8FFF2

#9fe2bf on black and on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 14.11:1

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1.49:1

Body text needs 4.5:1 to meet AA and large text needs 3:1, so a ratio tells you which of the two backgrounds this color can be read on, and at what size.

CSS for #9fe2bf

color: #9fe2bf;
background-color: #9fe2bf;
border: 3px solid #9fe2bf;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px 2px #9fe2bf;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 2px rgba(159, 226, 191, 0.8);

/* Perceptually even, and what a modern stylesheet wants */
color: oklch(85.8% 0.084 161.2);

The OKLCH form is the same color stated so that lightening or darkening it moves by an amount the eye agrees with. Every current browser understands it.

Contrast and readability

Seafoam on white measures 1.49:1 and on black 14.11:1. WCAG AA asks for 4.5:1 on normal text and 3:1 on large text and UI components, so the higher of those two decides which background it belongs on. In the scale above, 500 is the first to clear 4.5:1 on white, at 5.07:1.

The contrast checker reports every level for a given pair and suggests the nearest passing shade on the same hue. The color picker builds this same scale from any color you paste in.

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