Black Magic
#4f4554
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
#4f4554
RGB
79, 69, 84
OKLCh
40.6% 0.028 314.5°
CIELAB (D50)
30.7, 6.8, -7.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 14% 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 90.9; on black, Lc -11.4. 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.5 and 5.7 and 22.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.08:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.31:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.08:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f4554
protanopia
#464654 · ΔE00 5.5
deuteranopia
#484854 · ΔE00 5.7
tritanopia
#4a4a32 · ΔE00 22.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWitching at ΔE00 0.915: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- WitchingΔE00 0.915 · #4f4552
- Feminin NightshadeΔE00 1.1 · #4f4352
- Serendibite BlackΔE00 2.004 · #4a4354
- Napa HarvestΔE00 2.22 · #534853
- My Place or YoursΔE00 2.238 · #4f434e
- Deep MulberryΔE00 2.399 · #544954
- Black DahliaΔE00 2.515 · #4e434d
- Plum OrbitΔE00 3.082 · #4e414b
- JazlynΔE00 3.228 · #464152
- Quixotic PlumΔE00 3.23 · #4a4653
- Funkie FridayΔE00 3.392 · #4a3c4a
- Mourning VioletΔE00 3.441 · #474354
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.