Pitch Black
#483c41
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
#483c41
RGB
72, 60, 65
OKLCh
37.1% 0.018 351.0°
CIELAB (D50)
26.7, 6.2, -1.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% 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 94.4; on black, Lc -8.2. 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 7.0 and 7.4 and 26.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.51:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.00:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.51:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#483c41
protanopia
#3d3d41 · ΔE00 7.0
deuteranopia
#404041 · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#424200 · ΔE00 26.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRaven’s Wing at ΔE00 1.36: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Raven’s WingΔE00 1.36 · #4b4045
- Eclectic PurpleΔE00 1.593 · #483e45
- Dark Burgundy WineΔE00 1.844 · #4b4146
- RequiemΔE00 1.881 · #4e3f44
- ShaleΔE00 1.936 · #4a3f41
- Plum BrownΔE00 1.991 · #4e4247
- Monastery MantleΔE00 2.162 · #41363a
- Deep Space FrigateΔE00 2.2 · #43363d
- FireworksΔE00 2.298 · #44363d
- Void Wellness CoachΔE00 2.331 · #41373a
- Apple Herb BlackΔE00 2.378 · #4b4247
- RaptΔE00 2.408 · #45363a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.