Good Night!
#46565f
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
#46565f
RGB
70, 86, 95
OKLCh
44.3% 0.025 232.7°
CIELAB (D50)
35.5, -4.7, -7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 9 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 27% 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 86.5; on black, Lc -15.6. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.5 and 9.1 and 15.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.76:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#46565f
protanopia
#54545f · ΔE00 8.5
deuteranopia
#52525f · ΔE00 9.1
tritanopia
#4f4f7e · ΔE00 15.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSan Juan at ΔE00 1.102: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- San JuanΔE00 1.102 · #445761
- Night ViewΔE00 1.272 · #465560
- NightfallΔE00 1.443 · #43535e
- Asher BenjaminΔE00 1.548 · #45575e
- FiordΔE00 1.552 · #4b5a62
- Moody BlackΔE00 1.608 · #49555d
- Slate WallΔE00 1.635 · #40535d
- Flapper DanceΔE00 1.635 · #495762
- Sea BlitheΔE00 1.725 · #41545c
- Winter SolsticeΔE00 2.079 · #49545c
- Vermont SlateΔE00 2.179 · #48535a
- Seal BlueΔE00 2.222 · #475663
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.