Trout
#4c5356
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
#4c5356
RGB
76, 83, 86
OKLCh
43.7% 0.010 225.3°
CIELAB (D50)
34.7, -2.4, -2.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% 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 87.2; on black, Lc -14.9. 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 11.3 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.84:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.68:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.84:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4c5356
protanopia
#525256 · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#515156 · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#505067 · ΔE00 11.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChimney at ΔE00 1.189: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ChimneyΔE00 1.189 · #4a5257
- UrbaniteΔE00 1.348 · #4d5659
- Eshin GreyΔE00 1.631 · #4a4f52
- BlindfoldΔE00 1.658 · #4a4f51
- Seared GreyΔE00 1.794 · #495157
- Typewriter InkΔE00 1.824 · #4c5053
- MakoΔE00 2.047 · #505555
- BovineΔE00 2.05 · #52585c
- BlackwoodΔE00 2.057 · #494e52
- Cover of NightΔE00 2.141 · #494e4f
- Country SkyΔE00 2.203 · #49545a
- Lump of CoalΔE00 2.244 · #4e5154
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.