Dead Forest
#434b4f
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
#434b4f
RGB
67, 75, 79
OKLCh
40.7% 0.012 229.2°
CIELAB (D50)
31.3, -2.6, -3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 15% 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 12.2 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.91:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.36:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.91:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#434b4f
protanopia
#4a4a4f · ΔE00 4.8
deuteranopia
#49494f · ΔE00 5.1
tritanopia
#474762 · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFoggy Night at ΔE00 0.979: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Foggy NightΔE00 0.979 · #40494e
- Black SableΔE00 1.187 · #434b4d
- Big DipperΔE00 1.386 · #41494b
- Dark SpaceΔE00 1.478 · #414a4c
- Diamond GreyΔE00 1.511 · #3e474b
- Winter WayΔE00 1.548 · #3e474c
- Sooty LashesΔE00 1.583 · #474d52
- WitchcraftΔE00 1.701 · #474c50
- Little Black DressΔE00 1.752 · #43484b
- Lights OutΔE00 1.801 · #3d474b
- Mount EtnaΔE00 1.927 · #3d484c
- BlackwoodΔE00 2.033 · #494e52
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.