About the Colordle color for September 22, 2026
Colordle #1642 was published on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. The daily puzzle resets at midnight in the player's local time, so the color you'd see on that calendar day depends on where you opened it.
The answer was storm at hex code #000B44, decoding to RGB 0, 11, 68. That puts it in the blue family, which designers typically reach for when they need corporate identity, sky backgrounds, and trust signals. The tone reads as steady, professional, and dependable.
On the brightness scale, storm scores roughly 56 out of 255, making it A darker shade that reads well on light backgrounds but can swallow text placed on top without enough contrast. It's also cool-leaning, so it will play nicely against warm oranges and yellows as a counterweight in most layouts. If you're trying to recreate this color in Figma, Photoshop, or a CSS variable, copy the hex directly; if you need screen-space matching, the RGB triplet above lands you on the same swatch.
The day before this puzzle was plum, and the day after was pastel green. Scanning a short run of recent answers is a useful way to see whether the curator has been leaning toward a particular palette that week, and it gives you a baseline for guessing future puzzles when a hex doesn't ring a bell. The full archive on this site indexes every Colordle back to launch, so you can flip through months at a time.
For working solvers, the Colordle helper on this site applies the same RGB distance math the official game uses, so you can plug a guess into it and get a near-match back without burning through your daily attempts.