Shady Character
#4c4b4c
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
#4c4b4c
RGB
76, 75, 76
OKLCh
41.4% 0.002 325.6°
CIELAB (D50)
32.0, 0.6, -0.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 13 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 89.8; on black, Lc -12.4. 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
8.68:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.42:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.68:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4c4b4c
protanopia
#4b4b4c · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#4b4b4c · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#4b4b49 · ΔE00 2.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Earth at ΔE00 0.83: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deep EarthΔE00 0.83 · #4d4b4b
- Shadowed SteelΔE00 0.972 · #4b4b4b
- Bastion GreyΔE00 1.339 · #4d4a4a
- Dark ShadowΔE00 1.354 · #4a4b4d
- Private BlackΔE00 1.435 · #4c4949
- Pig IronΔE00 1.475 · #484848
- Wrought IronΔE00 1.639 · #474749
- Black BeanΔE00 1.646 · #4e4b4a
- Briquette GreyΔE00 1.717 · #515051
- Dampened BlackΔE00 1.81 · #4a4747
- Charadon GraniteΔE00 1.819 · #504d4c
- Black TieΔE00 1.88 · #464647
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.