Woodland Night
#475c5d
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
#475c5d
RGB
71, 92, 93
OKLCh
45.8% 0.026 199.9°
CIELAB (D50)
37.4, -8.1, -3.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 33% 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 84.6; on black, Lc -17.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 10.2 and 11.1 and 20.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.96:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#475c5d
protanopia
#5a5a5d · ΔE00 10.2
deuteranopia
#56565d · ΔE00 11.1
tritanopia
#525287 · ΔE00 20.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStill Waters Run Deep at ΔE00 1.139: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Still Waters Run DeepΔE00 1.139 · #4a5d5f
- Sabionando GreyΔE00 1.46 · #455859
- VoluteΔE00 1.708 · #445a5e
- Long WaterΔE00 1.861 · #425a5e
- Iron ForgeΔE00 2.015 · #475a5e
- Silken PineΔE00 2.134 · #495d5a
- Mariana TrenchΔE00 2.438 · #445956
- WellingtonΔE00 2.609 · #4f6364
- Blue TapestryΔE00 2.683 · #475c62
- HostaleafΔE00 2.76 · #475a56
- Corundum BlueΔE00 2.916 · #4a6267
- All NighterΔE00 3.287 · #455454
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.