Dark Space
#414a4c
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#414a4c
RGB
65, 74, 76
OKLCh
40.2% 0.012 212.6°
CIELAB (D50)
30.7, -3.4, -2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 17% 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 90.9; on black, Lc -11.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.3 and 5.7 and 13.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.31:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#414a4c
protanopia
#49494c · ΔE00 5.3
deuteranopia
#48484c · ΔE00 5.7
tritanopia
#464661 · ΔE00 13.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBig Dipper at ΔE00 0.568: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Big DipperΔE00 0.568 · #41494b
- Black SableΔE00 0.655 · #434b4d
- Dead ForestΔE00 1.478 · #434b4f
- Mount EtnaΔE00 1.527 · #3d484c
- Diamond GreyΔE00 1.534 · #3e474b
- Lights OutΔE00 1.557 · #3d474b
- Panda BlackΔE00 1.725 · #3c4748
- Foggy NightΔE00 1.787 · #40494e
- Moonless SkyΔE00 1.958 · #444b4a
- Winter WayΔE00 2.01 · #3e474c
- NightshadeΔE00 2.176 · #3c464b
- Black LeadΔE00 2.28 · #474c4d
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.