Stargazing
#414549
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
#414549
RGB
65, 69, 73
OKLCh
38.8% 0.009 248.1°
CIELAB (D50)
29.0, -1.0, -3.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 14 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 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 92.4; on black, Lc -10.0. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.67:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.17:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.67:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#414549
protanopia
#454549 · ΔE00 2.6
deuteranopia
#444449 · ΔE00 2.7
tritanopia
#434353 · ΔE00 7.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSteel Grey at ΔE00 1.029: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Steel GreyΔE00 1.029 · #43464b
- CyberspaceΔE00 1.179 · #44484d
- Little Black DressΔE00 1.301 · #43484b
- Salem BlackΔE00 1.344 · #45494d
- Winter CoatΔE00 1.458 · #45494c
- Chimney SmokeΔE00 1.595 · #3c4247
- Metropolitan SilhouetteΔE00 1.597 · #3e4244
- Black BoudoirΔE00 1.693 · #454749
- TunaΔE00 1.711 · #46494e
- Alpine Duck GreyΔE00 1.796 · #40464d
- Black BayΔE00 1.854 · #474a4e
- Indigo InkΔE00 1.891 · #474a4d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.