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Bender's Metal

From Futurama · 1999

#89a7a9teal-cyan

H184° S19% B66%R137 G167 B169

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Color anatomy

Shades — darker

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Futurama debuted in 1999 and introduced Bender to audiences with a distinctive visual identity. The character's color scheme was designed for maximum readability in fast-paced animated sequences.

The metal color #89a7a9 is a teal-cyan that's muted and subtle and balanced in tone. At H184° S19% B66%, it occupies a specific sweet spot in the HSB space — authoritative and calm.

Bender's metal is a color players think they know cold — until they have to dial it in from scratch. The most common mistake is undersaturating (going too gray) and pushing the brightness too low toward black.

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Calibrated to this character's specific hex, not generic color advice.

1Hue: Lock in around 184° — squarely in the blue range (210°–270°). Don't drift more than 10° from the target.

2Saturation: Target 19%. This is a restrained, subtle color. The instinct to crank saturation is wrong here — keep it low and precise.

3Brightness should stay in the mid-to-upper range (55–85%). Too low and you lose the character's warmth; too high and it washes out toward white.

4Common mistake: The natural tendency is to make the color brighter and more saturated than it really is. The actual shade is more subdued — trust the numbers, not your gut.