Obsidian Tide
Long sessionsMedia and player chrome that has to sit under artwork without fighting it.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Text-dense reading — the chroma climbs too fast at the mid steps.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 11.2
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 5.5:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 48 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 8.1
- worst under deuteranopia
These two are one colour to a reader with deuteranopia. Fine while the set is read as an order; never use them to mean two different things without a label or an icon as well.
A suggested mapping · derived, then measured
Five colours are not an interface, so this is an offer rather than a token set. It does not clear WCAG AA on secondary text and the accent — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Obsidian Tide — Media and player chrome that has to sit under artwork without fighting it. */
:root {
--palette-1: #000d07;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Obsidian Tide
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Obsidian Tide palette: #000D07, #002B28, #014C52, #1D6E84, #6B8BA1. It is for this: Media and player chrome that has to sit under artwork without fighting it.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — ramp from hue 204 — and the five colours are derived from it in OKLCH, where a step of lightness is a step your eye agrees with rather than one the hex numbers agree with. That is why the numbers above are properties of this palette rather than claims about it.