Ancient Pine
#444b43
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
#444b43
RGB
68, 75, 67
OKLCh
40.4% 0.016 141.7°
CIELAB (D50)
31.0, -4.3, 3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 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 90.7; on black, Lc -11.6. 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 13.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.33:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#444b43
protanopia
#4a4a43 · ΔE00 4.1
deuteranopia
#494943 · ΔE00 4.3
tritanopia
#484856 · ΔE00 13.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNightly Ivy at ΔE00 1.308: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Nightly IvyΔE00 1.308 · #444940
- Olympic RangeΔE00 1.519 · #424c44
- Foxhall GreenΔE00 1.581 · #454b40
- Black Forest GreenΔE00 1.673 · #424740
- Model TΔE00 1.77 · #484f49
- Rich OliveΔE00 1.869 · #3e4740
- Sporting GreenΔE00 1.892 · #434c47
- Park AvenueΔE00 2.1 · #465048
- Charcoal SmokeΔE00 2.318 · #474f43
- Laurel WoodsΔE00 2.336 · #44493d
- Ripe OliveΔE00 2.374 · #44483d
- Deep ForestΔE00 2.453 · #3c463e
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.