Armadillo
#484a46
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
#484a46
RGB
72, 74, 70
OKLCh
40.6% 0.007 128.7°
CIELAB (D50)
31.2, -1.5, 2.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 7% 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 90.6; on black, Lc -11.7. 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
8.96:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.96:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#484a46
protanopia
#4a4a46 · ΔE00 1.3
deuteranopia
#494946 · ΔE00 1.3
tritanopia
#49494c · ΔE00 4.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGravel at ΔE00 0.889: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- GravelΔE00 0.889 · #4a4b46
- Brattle SpruceΔE00 1.012 · #454743
- Rock BottomΔE00 1.387 · #484c49
- TuataraΔE00 1.414 · #454642
- Oyster CatchΔE00 1.756 · #4a4c45
- Natural PumiceΔE00 1.982 · #4a4a43
- Bamboo CharcoalΔE00 2.033 · #454a48
- AstronomicalΔE00 2.06 · #474b4a
- Iron RiverΔE00 2.12 · #4d504b
- MagpieΔE00 2.156 · #4c4b45
- ThunderΔE00 2.197 · #4d4d4b
- Aceto BalsamicoΔE00 2.41 · #4e4f48
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.