Grieving Basalt atop Stilling

#164146 RGB(22,65,70)

About this color

Grieving Basalt atop Stilling is rendered by screens as RGB(22, 65, 70) — a dark, vivid cyan hue.

#164146RGB(22, 65, 70)

HSL 186° · 52% saturation · 18% 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 Categories

Color formats

Name
Grieving Basalt atop Stilling
HEX
#164146
RGB
rgb(22,65,70)
RGB%
rgb(8.6%,25.5%,27.5%)
HSL
hsl(186,52%,18%)
HSV
hsv(186,69%,27%)
CMYK
cmyk(69,7,0,73)
LAB
lab(25,-13,-7)
LCH
lch(25,15,208)
sRGB
(0.086,0.255,0.275)
HEX8
#164146ff
CSS Name
Decimal
022065070

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Color info

Lightness
18%
Saturation
52%
Hue
186°
Chroma
15
Temperature
WarmCool
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