Sooty Lashes
#474d52
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
#474d52
RGB
71, 77, 82
OKLCh
41.7% 0.011 243.1°
CIELAB (D50)
32.3, -1.6, -3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 17 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 11% 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 89.5; on black, Lc -12.8. 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 9.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
8.57:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.45:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.57:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#474d52
protanopia
#4c4c52 · ΔE00 3.7
deuteranopia
#4b4b52 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#4a4a60 · ΔE00 9.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWitchcraft at ΔE00 0.737: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- WitchcraftΔE00 0.737 · #474c50
- BlackwoodΔE00 0.791 · #494e52
- Black RibbonΔE00 1.126 · #484c51
- Lamp PostΔE00 1.184 · #4a4f55
- Eshin GreyΔE00 1.364 · #4a4f52
- Poppy SeedΔE00 1.473 · #4a4e54
- Dead ForestΔE00 1.583 · #434b4f
- Seared GreyΔE00 1.609 · #495157
- SledΔE00 1.62 · #4c5055
- Salem BlackΔE00 1.649 · #45494d
- Typewriter InkΔE00 1.803 · #4c5053
- Black BayΔE00 1.826 · #474a4e
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.