Subterrain Kingdom
#4f4e4a
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
#4f4e4a
RGB
79, 78, 74
OKLCh
42.4% 0.007 95.2°
CIELAB (D50)
33.2, -0.2, 2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 88.8; on black, Lc -13.4. 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
8.33:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at8.33:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f4e4a
protanopia
#4e4e4a · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#4e4e4a · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#4e4e47 · ΔE00 2.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isVintage Frame at ΔE00 0.838: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Vintage FrameΔE00 0.838 · #4f4d48
- Dunes ManorΔE00 0.875 · #514f4a
- BlackjackΔE00 0.923 · #51504d
- MerlinΔE00 1.12 · #4f4e48
- ThunderΔE00 1.31 · #4d4d4b
- MagpieΔE00 1.559 · #4c4b45
- Renwick BrownΔE00 1.677 · #504e47
- GravelΔE00 1.897 · #4a4b46
- Fuscous GreyΔE00 2.011 · #54534d
- Black OakΔE00 2.066 · #4e4f4e
- German GreyΔE00 2.108 · #53504e
- Urbane BronzeΔE00 2.199 · #54504a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.