Plumbed Pamir
Plumbed Pamir (#170F46) 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 (249°, 65%, 17%) 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 yellow. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin plumbum, lead — past-participle of plumb (to measure depth with a lead-weighted line). As a color modifier, plumbed implies a deep-and-cool quality measured-to-its-fullest-depth, the dark cool-gray of lead-and-pewter metallic surfaces. Sits at the deep-and-cool end of the grid, parallel to fathomless with metallic register.
Central Asian high-altitude range straddling Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Kyrgyzstan — known as Bām-i Dunyā (the Roof of the World) for its 7,000m peaks and intense alpine sky. Pamir color refers to a Pamir clear-day alpine sky over the Wakhan Corridor: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the optical complexity of high-altitude Rayleigh-scattered atmospheric indigo light.
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.