Engulfed Bremen
Engulfed Bremen (#0A2B6D) is a deep azure 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 (220°, 83%, 23%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
Old French en-golfe, into-the-gulf — past-participle of engulf. As a color modifier, engulfed implies the deep-overwhelming-and-cool quality where the hue has been completely surrounded by darkness, like a small boat overtaken by Atlantic-ocean swells. Sits at the deep-and-overwhelmed end of the grid, parallel to submerged and suffocating.
The Hanseatic League German city — and Bremen Blue, a copper-carbonate pigment manufactured in Bremen from the seventeenth century. Bremen Blue is intermediate in tone between Berlin Blue (Prussian) and Smalt. The color refers to fresh Bremen Blue pigment in oil: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of mineral pigment.
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.