What color is the name Sebastian?

Sebastian resolves to Vivid Cyan (#0c5a4c) — computed deterministically from the letters of the name, never random.

How is a name's color determined?

An FNV-1a hash of the normalized name picks a hue uniformly around the wheel; the vowel-to-letter ratio weights chroma; lightness comes from the hash tail. The result is converted through OKLCH and matched to a 7,457-color database for its nearest real name.

The Color of the Name Sebastian

Vivid Cyan

#0C5A4C

RGB 12 · 90 · 76 HSL 169° · 76% · 20% OKLCH 0.42 · 0.1448 · 176.1°

Every spelling has a color

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Each prefix of sebastian resolves to its own color — hover a chip to see it. Accents and punctuation fold away: Zoë, zoey and Zoe' share their base letters.

Closest real-world color

Dark Green Blue #1F6357

nearest of 7,457 named colors (ΔE ≈ 4.4)

Why this color?

The hue comes from an FNV-1a hash of the name's letters, which lands uniformly anywhere on the color wheel — 176.1° in this case. Saturation is weighted by the vowel-to-letter ratio (4/9), so vowel-heavy names trend richer, and lightness is drawn from the tail of the hash.

Same name, same color — forever. No rerolls.

Only 4% of 126 analyzed names land in this part of the wheel.

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Sebastian color questions

What color is the name Sebastian?: Sebastian resolves to Vivid Cyan (#0c5a4c) — computed deterministically from the letters of the name, never random.
How is a name's color determined?: An FNV-1a hash of the normalized name picks a hue uniformly around the wheel; the vowel-to-letter ratio weights chroma; lightness comes from the hash tail. The result is converted through OKLCH and matched to a 7,457-color database for its nearest real name.

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