Sensibly Marten
Sensibly Marten (#1C0921) is a deep violet with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (287°, 57%, 8%) 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 green. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin sēnsibilis, perceivable / having-good-sense — adverbial-and-adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, sensibly implies a neutral-and-practical-and-rational quality where the hue carries the visual register of practical-and-functional color-decision matched to its everyday-use context. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to reasonably and practical in usage.
Eurasian Martes martes (pine marten) — a Mustelidae arboreal mammal of European boreal forest, with deep-glossy-brown-gray winter-pelage and a creamy-yellow throat-patch. Marten color refers to a Martes martes winter-pelage in raking sun: a dark cool-gray with the glossy finish of winter-blown-guard-hair-and-undercoat fur with melanin-pigmented dark-base coloration.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
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.