What Lingering Basin between Filling

#485754 RGB(72,87,84)

About this color

What Lingering Basin between Filling is rendered by screens as RGB(72, 87, 84) — a dark, muted cyan hue.

#485754RGB(72, 87, 84)

HSL 168° · 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
What Lingering Basin between Filling
HEX
#485754
RGB
rgb(72,87,84)
RGB%
rgb(28.2%,34.1%,32.9%)
HSL
hsl(168,9%,31%)
HSV
hsv(168,17%,34%)
CMYK
cmyk(17,0,3,66)
LAB
lab(36,-7,0)
LCH
lch(36,7,180)
sRGB
(0.282,0.341,0.329)
HEX8
#485754ff
CSS Name
Decimal
072087084

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Color info

Lightness
31%
Saturation
9%
Hue
168°
Chroma
7
Temperature
WarmCool
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