Shadowy Carbon atop Grieving

#194d5c RGB(25,77,92)

About this color

Shadowy Carbon atop Grieving is rendered by screens as RGB(25, 77, 92) — a dark, vivid cyan hue.

#194d5cRGB(25, 77, 92)

HSL 193° · 57% saturation · 23% 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
Shadowy Carbon atop Grieving
HEX
#194d5c
RGB
rgb(25,77,92)
RGB%
rgb(9.8%,30.2%,36.1%)
HSL
hsl(193,57%,23%)
HSV
hsv(193,73%,36%)
CMYK
cmyk(73,16,0,64)
LAB
lab(30,-12,-14)
LCH
lch(30,18,229)
sRGB
(0.098,0.302,0.361)
HEX8
#194d5cff
CSS Name
Decimal
025077092

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Color info

Lightness
23%
Saturation
57%
Hue
193°
Chroma
18
Temperature
WarmCool
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