Amiable Dymchatyy
Amiable Dymchatyy (#0D122A) is a deep blue with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (230°, 53%, 11%) 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 amīcābilis, friendly — adjectival suffix -able. As a color modifier, amiable implies a neutral-and-friendly-and-pleasant quality where the hue carries the visual register of Edwardian-and-American-Country friendly-and-welcoming-hosting interior-decoration-and-textile coordinated-color tone. Sits at the neutral-and-friendly end of the grid, parallel to affable and cordial in usage.
Russian дымчатый, smoky — adopted into Russian color terminology for the deep-charcoal-and-cool-gray of Russian-folk samovar tea-kettle exteriors and Stalin-period office-tobacco-smoke residue. Dymchatyy color refers to a Tula-foundry samovar exterior with multi-decade tobacco-smoke patina: a dark cool-gray with the matte finish of multi-decade birch-and-tobacco soot residue on Russian copper-and-brass.
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.