Sober Brook above Rooting

#485356 RGB(72,83,86)

About this color

Sober Brook above Rooting is rendered by screens as RGB(72, 83, 86) — a dark, muted cyan hue.

#485356RGB(72, 83, 86)

HSL 193° · 9% saturation · 31% 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
Sober Brook above Rooting
HEX
#485356
RGB
rgb(72,83,86)
RGB%
rgb(28.2%,32.5%,33.7%)
HSL
hsl(193,9%,31%)
HSV
hsv(193,16%,34%)
CMYK
cmyk(16,3,0,66)
LAB
lab(34,-4,-3)
LCH
lch(34,5,217)
sRGB
(0.282,0.325,0.337)
HEX8
#485356ff
CSS Name
Decimal
072083086

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Color info

Lightness
31%
Saturation
9%
Hue
193°
Chroma
5
Temperature
WarmCool
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