Croft Belfry
Croft Belfry (#190838) is a deep indigo 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 (261°, 75%, 13%) 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 lime. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Old English croft, small-enclosed-field — adjectival usage of croft. As a color modifier, croft implies a neutral-and-Scottish-Highland-and-traditional quality, the neutral color of Scottish-Highland-Crofter hand-spun-and-hand-woven crofting-and-pasture traditional-craft textile-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to homespun and folksy in usage.
Old French berfroi, protective-tower — the deep-cool-gray fortified-tower bell-housing of medieval-and-Renaissance European parish-and-cathedral-and-civic-architecture. Belfry color refers to a Bruges-Belfort 13th-century belfry-tower face in November-overcast light: a dark cool-gray with the matte finish of Tournai-bluestone hand-quarried Carboniferous-limestone in 84-meter-tall hand-built civic-tower.
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.