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#435D43

Hunter Green · dark cool green

About #435D43

#435D43 is a muted, dark shade in the green family. On screen it is built from 26% red, 36% green and 26% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 28% cyan, 0% magenta, 28% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

Of the common colour names it is similar to Hunter Green (ΔE 8.2); Eucalyptus comes next. Its complementary colour, directly opposite on the colour wheel, is #5D435D — a eggplant tone that gives the strongest contrast in hue.

Designers tend to use dark tones like #435D43 for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 7.28:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (7.28:1).

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Red67
Green93
Blue67

Closest named colours

Hunter Green
#355E3B · ΔE 8.2
Eucalyptus
#5F8575 · ΔE 17.4
Bottle Green
#006A4E · ΔE 18.7

ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.

Text on #435D43

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #435D43.
7.28:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #435D43.
2.89:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #435D43 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#435D43
Protanopia (no red cones)
#5E5841
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#5A5644
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#405B56

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #435D43?

#435D43 is a muted, dark shade in the green family. On screen it is built from 26% red, 36% green and 26% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 28% cyan, 0% magenta, 28% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

›What text colour should I use on #435D43?

Use white text. White on #435D43 has a contrast ratio of 7.28:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #435D43?

Its complementary colour is #5D435D, and analogous partners are #505D43 and #435D50.