Dark Roast
#4a2d2f
A pink that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#4a2d2f
RGB
74, 45, 47
OKLCh
33.4% 0.043 15.1°
CIELAB (D50)
22.2, 14.0, 4.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 32% 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 97.9; on black, Lc 0.0. 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 15.3 and 17.9 and 27.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.71:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4a2d2f
protanopia
#31312f · ΔE00 15.3
deuteranopia
#37372e · ΔE00 17.9
tritanopia
#3d3d00 · ΔE00 27.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCab Sav at ΔE00 1.16: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Cab SavΔE00 1.16 · #4a2e32
- Decadent ChocolateΔE00 1.934 · #513233
- Brown CoffeeΔE00 2.126 · #4a2c2a
- Joyful RubyΔE00 2.133 · #503136
- Rookwood Dark RedΔE00 2.409 · #4b2929
- Barako BrewΔE00 2.585 · #4b2d2a
- Nectar of the GodsΔE00 2.753 · #513439
- HeathΔE00 2.823 · #4f2a2c
- Purple KiteΔE00 2.883 · #512c31
- Ripe EggplantΔE00 3.003 · #492d35
- Mid CenturyΔE00 3.063 · #553333
- Nisemurasaki PurpleΔE00 3.198 · #43242a
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.