Seaweed #18D17B

About this color

#18D17B is a medium-light, vivid green. In OKLCH its lightness is 76%, its chroma 0.183 and its hue 155°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Seaweed. Black text reads best on it, at 10.44:1.

Colors that go with Seaweed

Matches found by rotating Seaweed around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Seaweed

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Seaweed, closest first.

• Lollipop Party

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Seaweed, with their ΔE distance.

• Algae Green #21C36F ΔE 0.039
• Emerald #06D6A0 ΔE 0.046
• Dark Mint #48C072 ΔE 0.046
• Aqua Green #12E193 ΔE 0.047
• Dark Mint Green #20C073 ΔE 0.047
• Greenblue #23C48B ΔE 0.048
• Soft Green #6FC276 ΔE 0.056
• Weird Green #3AE57F ΔE 0.059

More about Seaweed

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Seaweed

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 1 part green
• 1 part white

Recipe result: #74C780, a difference of ΔE 0.056 from Seaweed. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Seaweed in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Seaweed

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EEF9F1

   oklch(97.2% 0.016 154.5)

2. Step 100

   100

   #D9F1E0

   oklch(93.6% 0.034 154.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #B9E6C7

   oklch(88.5% 0.063 154.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #81D7A0

   oklch(81% 0.115 154.9)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #18D17B

   oklch(75.8% 0.183 155.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A45E

   oklch(63.1% 0.156 155.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008A4E

   oklch(55.6% 0.137 155)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007441

   oklch(49.1% 0.121 155.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005F34

   oklch(42.6% 0.105 155.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004F2B

    oklch(37.6% 0.092 155.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #003017

    oklch(27.1% 0.068 154.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Seaweed with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.