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Tom's Body Fur

From Tom and Jerry · 1940

#7d8286blue

H207° S7% B53%R125 G130 B134

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Color anatomy

Shades — darker

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Tom and Jerry debuted in 1940 and introduced Tom to audiences with a distinctive visual identity. The character's color scheme was designed for maximum readability in fast-paced animated sequences.

The body fur color #7d8286 is a blue that's muted and subtle and balanced in tone. At H207° S7% B53%, it occupies a specific sweet spot in the HSB space — authoritative and calm.

Tom's body fur 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 207° — squarely in the blue range (210°–270°). Don't drift more than 10° from the target.

2Saturation: Target 7%. This is a restrained, subtle color. The instinct to crank saturation is wrong here — keep it low and precise.

3Hold brightness in the lower-to-mid range (20–55%). This is a grounded, substantial color — pushing it too high will make it feel thin and wrong.

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.