Appropriately Tombstone
Appropriately Tombstone (#090F29) is a deep blue with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (229°, 64%, 10%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary amber. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin appropriātus, made-one's-own — adverbial-and-adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, appropriately implies a neutral-and-fitting-and-context-aware quality where the hue carries the visual register of context-fitting-and-conventional color-decision matched to its setting. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to properly and suitably in usage.
English tombe-stān, burial-stone — the deep-cool-gray slate-or-granite memorial-stone of medieval-and-modern European churchyard burial-tradition, particularly the Cotswold-Limestone and Welsh-Slate hand-carved tombstone-and-headstone. Tombstone color refers to a Welsh-Bethesda-slate 19th-century churchyard tombstone face in November-overcast rain: a dark cool-gray with the matte finish of Cambrian-period roofing-slate.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.
Wide gamut
The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.