Drained Bremen
Drained Bremen (#232C83) is a deep blue 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 (234°, 58%, 33%) 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
Old English drēahnian, to filter — past-participle of drain. As a color modifier, drained implies a deep-and-emptied-and-pallid quality where the hue's vital warmth has been removed. Sits at the deep-and-cool end of the grid, parallel to deathly with desaturation overtone.
The Hanseatic League German city — and Bremen Blue, a copper-carbonate pigment manufactured in Bremen from the seventeenth century. Bremen Blue is intermediate in tone between Berlin Blue (Prussian) and Smalt. The color refers to fresh Bremen Blue pigment in oil: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the matte finish of mineral pigment.
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.