What the Hopeless Basalt circa Brooding

#09525f RGB(9,82,95)

About this color

What the Hopeless Basalt circa Brooding is a intense, dark cyan tone, fixed at #09525f in the RGB color space.

#09525fRGB(9, 82, 95)

HSL 189° · 83% saturation · 20% lightness

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Psychology

In deeper registers cyan reads as focused and efficient — a colour of systems and clarity.

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History

Cyan as a printing ink became central to modern colour reproduction — the C in CMYK — because its complement to red allows the full printable colour range.

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Design use

As a dark tone, it naturally lends itself to a background for light-coloured text, as a deep accent stripe, or as an anchoring tone in dark-mode interfaces. It pairs naturally with off-whites, warm creams, and metallic highlights.

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Colour pairings

For palette building, cyan complements warm reds and red-oranges — a palette of technological energy. For calmer use, pair with white, light grey, and the lightest tints of the same hue.

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Color Categories

Color formats

Name
What the Hopeless Basalt circa Brooding
HEX
#09525f
RGB
rgb(9,82,95)
RGB%
rgb(3.5%,32.2%,37.3%)
HSL
hsl(189,83%,20%)
HSV
hsv(189,91%,37%)
CMYK
cmyk(91,14,0,63)
LAB
lab(32,-16,-13)
LCH
lch(32,21,219)
sRGB
(0.035,0.322,0.373)
HEX8
#09525fff
CSS Name
Decimal
009082095

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Color info

Lightness
20%
Saturation
83%
Hue
189°
Chroma
21
Temperature
WarmCool
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