Gun Powder
#484753
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
#484753
RGB
72, 71, 83
OKLCh
40.3% 0.020 289.3°
CIELAB (D50)
30.6, 2.5, -7.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 9% 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 91.0; on black, Lc -11.3. 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
9.12:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.30:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.12:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#484753
protanopia
#474753 · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#474753 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#474750 · ΔE00 1.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDowning Street at ΔE00 1.705: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Downing StreetΔE00 1.705 · #4a4b57
- Night GreyΔE00 1.817 · #45444d
- Quixotic PlumΔE00 1.829 · #4a4653
- IshtarΔE00 1.92 · #484450
- Flint PurpleΔE00 1.931 · #42424d
- TyrianΔE00 2.043 · #4e4d59
- ChurchillΔE00 2.132 · #4d4d58
- Smoked PurpleΔE00 2.247 · #444251
- Kala NamakΔE00 2.269 · #46444c
- Black SapphireΔE00 2.481 · #434555
- Midnight SerenadeΔE00 2.493 · #41434e
- Flintstone BlueΔE00 2.498 · #434252
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.