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Custom Dymchatyy

#141d1c
Notes

Custom Dymchatyy (#141D1C) is a deep teal 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 (173°, 18%, 10%) places it in the muted 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#141d1c
RGB
rgb(20, 29, 28)
HSL
hsl(173, 18%, 10%)
HWB
hwb(173 8% 89%)
OKLCH
oklch(22.2% 0.013 187.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.0856 0.1127 0.1096)
HSV
hsv(173, 31%, 11%)
LAB
lab(9.89% -4.35 -0.65)
LCH
lch(9.89% 4.40 188.48)
CMYK
cmyk(31%, 0%, 3%, 89%)

Etymology

Custom
adjective

Latin cōnsuētūdō, habit / usage — adjectival usage of custom. As a color modifier, custom implies a neutral-and-individually-fitted-and-bespoke quality, the neutral color of Savile-Row-tailoring and Gucci-and-Hermès-Made-to-Measure individually-fitted-and-bespoke craft-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to bespoke and tailored in usage.

Dymchatyy
noun

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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Harmonies

This color has effectively no chroma (OKLCH C = 0.013) — it’s on the grayscale axis. Hue rotations don’t change a grayscale color, so complementary, analogous, triadic, and split-complementary all reduce to the same value. They aren’t shown because four identical tiles would be misleading.

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

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.

#141d1c
Original
#1c1c1c
Protanopia
#1a1b1c
Deuteranopia
#111d1d
Tritanopia
#1b1b1b
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

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.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon White
17.18:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
1.22:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

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.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##141D1C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.0856 0.1127 0.1096)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.013

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.

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