Nearest-color comparison

Light Sea Green vs Verdigris

Light Sea Green and Verdigris are different cyan colors with HEX values #20B2AA and #43B3AE. According to Colors Encyclopedia, their RGB distance is 35.2, their contrast ratio is 1.04:1, and the comparison helps choose between tone, temperature, and accessibility behavior.

Light Sea Green and Verdigris are visually related colors. Verdigris is the lighter option. They share similar temperature behavior. Their mutual contrast is 1.04:1, so the pair is too low for text and better treated as a palette relationship.

Differences Use cases Accessibility JSON

Light Sea Green#20B2AA

Verdigris#43B3AE

Quick Difference Summary

The main measurable differences between Light Sea Green and Verdigris across RGB distance, luminance, hue, saturation, and contrast.

RGB distance35.2

Pair contrast1.04:1

Luminance delta0.0144

Hue delta0 deg

Lighter colorVerdigris

More saturatedLight Sea Green

Side-by-Side Color Profiles

cyan color

Light Sea Green

Light Sea Green is #20B2AA, a cool cyan color with balanced character. Compared with Verdigris, it is darker and more saturated. Use it for web design, css color systems, and ui prototyping, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#20B2AA RGB32, 178, 170 HSL177, 70, 41 CMYK82, 0, 4, 30 Luminance0.3505 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

cyan color

Verdigris

Verdigris is #43B3AE, a cool cyan color with balanced character. Compared with Light Sea Green, it is lighter and less saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with black text as the safer foreground option.

HEX#43B3AE RGB67, 179, 174 HSL177, 46, 48 CMYK63, 0, 3, 30 Luminance0.3649 Best textblack text

Color page WCAG HEX atlas

When to Use Light Sea Green or Verdigris

Choose Light Sea GreenLight Sea Green is better when the design needs balanced cyan character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #20B2AA.

Choose VerdigrisVerdigris is better when the design needs balanced cyan character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #43B3AE.

Use togetherUse these colors together as related palette neighbors, subtle material differences, or tonal alternatives rather than readable foreground/background pairs.

Technical Comparison Table

PropertyLight Sea GreenVerdigris

HEX#20B2AA#43B3AE

RGB32, 178, 17067, 179, 174

HSL177, 70, 41177, 46, 48

CMYK82, 0, 4, 3063, 0, 3, 30

FamilyCyanCyan

TemperatureCoolCool

ToneBalancedBalanced

Luminance0.35050.3649

Black contrast8.01:18.3:1

White contrast2.62:12.53:1

Shared tonesBalanced

Accessibility and Contrast

Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.

Light Sea Greenblack text - 8.01:1

Verdigrisblack text - 8.3:1

Related Palette Strip

A compact visual strip showing the two compared colors with nearby harmony and variant context.

Light Sea Green#20B2AA

Verdigris#43B3AE

#4DE0D8#4DE0D8

#80D0CC#80D0CC

#B21F27#B21F27

#B34248#B34248

colorsBoth named color records with HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, luminance, WCAG, and links

differencesRGB distance, HSL deltas, luminance delta, contrast, and shared attributes

accessibilityPair contrast and safer text choices for each color

useCasesWhen to choose each color and when to use them together

relatedApiMachine-readable comparison and color endpoints

Structured sections

Colors

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    "temperature": "cool",
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      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 8.01
    },
    "description": "Light Sea Green is #20B2AA, a cool cyan color with balanced character. Compared with Verdigris, it is darker and more saturated. Use it for web design, css color systems, and ui prototyping, with black text as the safer foreground option.",
    "url": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/colors/light-sea-green/",
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  },
  {
    "slug": "verdigris",
    "name": "Verdigris",
    "hex": "#43B3AE",
    "rgb": [
      67,
      179,
      174
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      177,
      46,
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    "cmyk": [
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      3,
      30
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    "family": "cyan",
    "temperature": "cool",
    "tone": [
      "balanced"
    ],
    "luminance": 0.3649,
    "contrast": {
      "black": 8.3,
      "white": 2.53
    },
    "wcag": {
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    },
    "bestText": {
      "text": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 8.3
    },
    "description": "Verdigris is #43B3AE, a cool cyan color with balanced character. Compared with Light Sea Green, it is lighter and less saturated. Use it for historical references, pigment palettes, and cultural color systems, with black text as the safer foreground option.",
    "url": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/colors/verdigris/",
    "apiUrl": "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/verdigris.json"
  }
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Differences

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  "contrastRatio": 1.04,
  "hslDelta": {
    "hue": 0,
    "saturation": 24,
    "lightness": 7
  },
  "luminanceDelta": 0.0144,
  "sameFamily": true,
  "sameTemperature": true,
  "sharedTones": [
    "balanced"
  ],
  "lighterColor": "Verdigris",
  "moreSaturatedColor": "Light Sea Green"
}

Accessibility

{
  "pairContrastRatio": 1.04,
  "textRecommendation": "Do not use this pair for text; use it for neighboring palette colors, decoration, or low-emphasis surfaces.",
  "safeText": [
    {
      "color": "Light Sea Green",
      "background": "#20B2AA",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 8.01
    },
    {
      "color": "Verdigris",
      "background": "#43B3AE",
      "foreground": "#000000",
      "label": "black text",
      "ratio": 8.3
    }
  ]
}

Use cases

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  "chooseSecondWhen": "Verdigris is better when the design needs balanced cyan character, cool temperature, and the specific HEX value #43B3AE.",
  "useTogetherWhen": "Use these colors together as related palette neighbors, subtle material differences, or tonal alternatives rather than readable foreground/background pairs."
}

Related API

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  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/compare/light-sea-green-vs-verdigris.json",
  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/light-sea-green.json",
  "https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/verdigris.json"
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Full JSON dataset

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