Urban Chic
#424c4a
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
#424c4a
RGB
66, 76, 74
OKLCh
40.7% 0.013 182.3°
CIELAB (D50)
31.4, -4.5, -0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 90.4; on black, Lc -11.9. 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 5.7 and 6.1 and 15.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.36:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#424c4a
protanopia
#4b4b4a · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#49494a · ΔE00 6.1
tritanopia
#474762 · ΔE00 15.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSpinel Black at ΔE00 1.665: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Spinel BlackΔE00 1.665 · #464d4a
- Moonless SkyΔE00 1.689 · #444b4a
- Sporting GreenΔE00 1.736 · #434c47
- CorduroyΔE00 1.865 · #404d49
- New ForestΔE00 2.004 · #47514d
- Black EvergreenΔE00 2.358 · #45524f
- Darkness GreenΔE00 2.385 · #3a4645
- Panda BlackΔE00 2.443 · #3c4748
- Dark as NightΔE00 2.563 · #495252
- Dark SpaceΔE00 2.575 · #414a4c
- Dark SlateΔE00 2.608 · #465352
- Bamboo CharcoalΔE00 2.612 · #454a48
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.