Heavy Metal
#46473e
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
#46473e
RGB
70, 71, 62
OKLCh
39.4% 0.015 112.2°
CIELAB (D50)
29.8, -1.8, 5.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 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 91.8; on black, Lc -10.6. 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
9.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#46473e
protanopia
#47473e · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#47473e · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#474741 · ΔE00 2.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isParkview at ΔE00 0.841: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- ParkviewΔE00 0.841 · #46483e
- Sensai BrownΔE00 1.012 · #494a41
- Natural PumiceΔE00 1.709 · #4a4a43
- Oyster CatchΔE00 2.047 · #4a4c45
- Ripe OliveΔE00 2.066 · #44483d
- Forest NightΔE00 2.219 · #434237
- Thorny BranchΔE00 2.276 · #4c4a41
- Volcanic Stone GreenΔE00 2.324 · #45433b
- Nightly IvyΔE00 2.372 · #444940
- Treasure IslandΔE00 2.526 · #47493b
- Ruskin BronzeΔE00 2.536 · #4d4d41
- Black Forest GreenΔE00 2.545 · #424740
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.