Whiskey and Wine
#49463f
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
#49463f
RGB
73, 70, 63
OKLCh
39.5% 0.012 87.5°
CIELAB (D50)
29.8, 0.2, 4.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 15% 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 91.8; on black, Lc -10.6. 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 6.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#49463f
protanopia
#46463f · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#47473f · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#474733 · ΔE00 6.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMoss Glen at ΔE00 0.619: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Moss GlenΔE00 0.619 · #4a473f
- Ebony KeysΔE00 0.663 · #4a4741
- UnpluggedΔE00 0.838 · #4b4840
- Volcanic Stone GreenΔE00 1.441 · #45433b
- Pasilla ChilesΔE00 1.73 · #44413b
- Thorny BranchΔE00 1.809 · #4c4a41
- Stealth JetΔE00 1.868 · #4b4844
- Deepest NightmareΔE00 1.965 · #44413c
- Black MochaΔE00 2.025 · #4b4743
- MagpieΔE00 2.058 · #4c4b45
- Earth BlackΔE00 2.063 · #49433b
- Seaweed WrapΔE00 2.242 · #4d473d
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.