Espresso Macchiato
#4f4744
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
#4f4744
RGB
79, 71, 68
OKLCh
40.5% 0.012 41.7°
CIELAB (D50)
30.9, 3.0, 3.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 10% 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 -11.5. 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 5.2 and 5.6 and 17.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.06:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.32:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.06:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#4f4744
protanopia
#484844 · ΔE00 5.2
deuteranopia
#494944 · ΔE00 5.6
tritanopia
#4b4b1d · ΔE00 17.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPérigord Truffle at ΔE00 1.159: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Périgord TruffleΔE00 1.159 · #524a46
- Phantom MistΔE00 1.218 · #4b4441
- Tribal DrumΔE00 1.248 · #514843
- Sweet MolassesΔE00 1.711 · #4b423f
- OublietteΔE00 1.909 · #4f4944
- Black FoxΔE00 1.992 · #4f4842
- Dark GraniteΔE00 2.028 · #4f443f
- Espresso BeansΔE00 2.075 · #4c443e
- Off the Beaten PathΔE00 2.088 · #534c4b
- Vehicle Body GreyΔE00 2.2 · #4c433d
- Basalt BlackΔE00 2.241 · #4d423e
- MatterhornΔE00 2.257 · #524b4b
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.