Deepest Nightmare
#44413c
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
#44413c
RGB
68, 65, 60
OKLCh
37.7% 0.009 80.7°
CIELAB (D50)
27.7, 0.5, 3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 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 93.6; on black, Lc -8.9. 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 6.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
10.16:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.07:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at10.16:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#44413c
protanopia
#41413c · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#42423c · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#424231 · ΔE00 6.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPasilla Chiles at ΔE00 0.576: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Pasilla ChilesΔE00 0.576 · #44413b
- November StormsΔE00 0.868 · #423f3b
- JoesmithiteΔE00 0.994 · #433f39
- Scorched EarthΔE00 1.505 · #44403d
- Skavenblight DingeΔE00 1.891 · #47413b
- Evening CanyonΔE00 1.923 · #454341
- SealskinΔE00 1.946 · #48423c
- Whiskey and WineΔE00 1.965 · #49463f
- Volcanic Stone GreenΔE00 1.976 · #45433b
- Ebony KeysΔE00 2.057 · #4a4741
- Off BroadwayΔE00 2.135 · #433f3d
- Knights of the DesertΔE00 2.138 · #403c39
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.