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Chinese traditional color

靛青

diàn qīng

Also called 'blue indigo': a blue dye made by soaking Polygonum indigo leaves in water and precipitating with lime; deep blue-green. (靛 is pronounced diàn; some call blue ink 'indigo water' or 'lan dian water'.)

HEX
#177CB0
RGB
rgb(23, 124, 176)
HSL
hsl(200, 77%, 39%)
CMYK
cmyk(87%, 30%, 0%, 31%)
LAB
lab(49.17, -8.34, -35.15)

Traditional colors have no single canonical value. This one is the reading shared by 5 separate compilations; all four color spaces above are stored with the record, not recalculated per request.

Palettes near 靛青

12 · ΔE ≤ 12