What Brooding Cavern circa Shrinking

#2b6a64 RGB(43,106,100)

About this color

What Brooding Cavern circa Shrinking is rendered by screens as RGB(43, 106, 100) — a dark, moderate cyan hue.

#2b6a64RGB(43, 106, 100)

HSL 174° · 42% saturation · 29% 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
What Brooding Cavern circa Shrinking
HEX
#2b6a64
RGB
rgb(43,106,100)
RGB%
rgb(16.9%,41.6%,39.2%)
HSL
hsl(174,42%,29%)
HSV
hsv(174,59%,42%)
CMYK
cmyk(59,0,6,58)
LAB
lab(41,-22,-3)
LCH
lch(41,22,188)
sRGB
(0.169,0.416,0.392)
HEX8
#2b6a64ff
CSS Name
Decimal
043106100

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Color info

Lightness
29%
Saturation
42%
Hue
174°
Chroma
22
Temperature
WarmCool
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