Tuna
#46494e
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
#46494e
RGB
70, 73, 78
OKLCh
40.4% 0.009 260.7°
CIELAB (D50)
30.9, -0.4, -3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 15 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 5% 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 90.8; on black, Lc -11.5. 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 5.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#46494e
protanopia
#49494e · ΔE00 1.9
deuteranopia
#48484e · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#484856 · ΔE00 5.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack Bay at ΔE00 0.673: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Black BayΔE00 0.673 · #474a4e
- CyberspaceΔE00 0.716 · #44484d
- Salem BlackΔE00 0.936 · #45494d
- Steel GreyΔE00 1.01 · #43464b
- Black RibbonΔE00 1.109 · #484c51
- Indigo InkΔE00 1.228 · #474a4d
- Night ClubΔE00 1.397 · #494b4e
- Winter CoatΔE00 1.452 · #45494c
- Midnight MagicΔE00 1.597 · #46474a
- WitchcraftΔE00 1.655 · #474c50
- StargazingΔE00 1.711 · #414549
- Poppy SeedΔE00 1.782 · #4a4e54
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.