Italian Grape
#413d4b
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#413d4b
RGB
65, 61, 75
OKLCh
37.0% 0.024 298.3°
CIELAB (D50)
26.6, 4.2, -7.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 94.5; on black, Lc -8.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.99:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.53:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#413d4b
protanopia
#3d3d4b · ΔE00 2.4
deuteranopia
#3e3e4b · ΔE00 2.5
tritanopia
#3f3f40 · ΔE00 7.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLoom of Fate at ΔE00 1.613: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Loom of FateΔE00 1.613 · #454151
- Smoked PurpleΔE00 1.951 · #444251
- JazlynΔE00 2.022 · #464152
- Ship GreyΔE00 2.2 · #3e3a44
- Flintstone BlueΔE00 2.394 · #434252
- MartiniqueΔE00 2.412 · #3c3748
- Mourning VioletΔE00 2.415 · #474354
- IshtarΔE00 2.51 · #484450
- India InkΔE00 2.913 · #3c3d4c
- Professor PlumΔE00 2.992 · #393540
- Blueberry TartΔE00 3.017 · #3f4050
- Serendibite BlackΔE00 3.023 · #4a4354
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.