Moonless Sky
#444b4a
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
#444b4a
RGB
68, 75, 74
OKLCh
40.6% 0.009 186.5°
CIELAB (D50)
31.2, -3.1, -0.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 90.5; on black, Lc -11.8. 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 12.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.35:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#444b4a
protanopia
#4a4a4a · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#49494a · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#48485c · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBamboo Charcoal at ΔE00 1.198: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Bamboo CharcoalΔE00 1.198 · #454a48
- Spinel BlackΔE00 1.34 · #464d4a
- AstronomicalΔE00 1.67 · #474b4a
- Urban ChicΔE00 1.689 · #424c4a
- Black SableΔE00 1.8 · #434b4d
- Black LeadΔE00 1.852 · #474c4d
- Big DipperΔE00 1.93 · #41494b
- Dark SpaceΔE00 1.958 · #414a4c
- Rock BottomΔE00 2.01 · #484c49
- Cover of NightΔE00 2.152 · #494e4f
- Dark as NightΔE00 2.511 · #495252
- Sporting GreenΔE00 2.602 · #434c47
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.