Hooded Genji
Hooded Genji (#24307E) 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 (232°, 56%, 32%) 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 hōd, hood — past-participle of hood, sharing root with German Hut (hat). As a color modifier, hooded implies the deep-and-veiled-and-fabric-shrouded quality of monk-and-friar enveloping-cowled-cloak silhouette in Cistercian-and-Benedictine monastic tradition. Sits at the deep-and-veiled end of the grid, parallel to cloaked and mantled with monastic register.
The eponymous nobleman of The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari, 1010 CE) by Murasaki Shikibu, whose silk-on-silk court robes were dyed in graduated layers of murasaki and aizome. Genji color refers to a layered Heian-period court robe in the kasane no irome tradition: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-violet with the silk luster of multi-layer kasane dyeing.
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.