Gloom-laden Basalt from Consuming

#14786c RGB(20,120,108)

About this color

Gloom-laden Basalt from Consuming is rendered by screens as RGB(20, 120, 108) — a dark, vivid cyan hue.

#14786cRGB(20, 120, 108)

HSL 173° · 71% saturation · 27% lightness

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Psychology

Dark cyans feel aquatic and technical — deep ocean, industrial machinery, precision instruments.

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History

Cerulean, a blue-green pigment introduced in the nineteenth century, became important to Impressionist painters for capturing sky and water with unprecedented freshness.

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Design use

Practically speaking, this deep cyan is most at home as 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

When it comes to colour harmony, combine this cyan with coral and warm white for a fresh, modern palette, or with deep navy and charcoal for a more serious, technical feel.

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Color formats

Name
Gloom-laden Basalt from Consuming
HEX
#14786c
RGB
rgb(20,120,108)
RGB%
rgb(7.8%,47.1%,42.4%)
HSL
hsl(173,71%,27%)
HSV
hsv(173,83%,47%)
CMYK
cmyk(83,0,10,53)
LAB
lab(45,-30,-1)
LCH
lch(45,30,182)
sRGB
(0.078,0.471,0.424)
HEX8
#14786cff
CSS Name
Decimal
020120108

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Color info

Lightness
27%
Saturation
71%
Hue
173°
Chroma
30
Temperature
WarmCool
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