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#445B41

Hunter Green · dark cool green

About #445B41

#445B41 is a muted, dark shade in the green family. On screen it is built from 27% red, 36% green and 25% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 25% cyan, 0% magenta, 29% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

Of the common colour names it is similar to Hunter Green (ΔE 9.0); Eucalyptus comes next. Its complementary colour, directly opposite on the colour wheel, is #58415B — a eggplant tone that gives the strongest contrast in hue.

Designers tend to use dark tones like #445B41 for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 7.45:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (7.45:1).

Colour codes

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Red68
Green91
Blue65

Closest named colours

Hunter Green
#355E3B · ΔE 9.0
Eucalyptus
#5F8575 · ΔE 18.2
Bottle Green
#006A4E · ΔE 19.9

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

Text on #445B41

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #445B41.
7.45:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #445B41.
2.82:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #445B41 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#445B41
Protanopia (no red cones)
#5C563F
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#595442
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#425954

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #445B41?

#445B41 is a muted, dark shade in the green family. On screen it is built from 27% red, 36% green and 25% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 25% cyan, 0% magenta, 29% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

›What text colour should I use on #445B41?

Use white text. White on #445B41 has a contrast ratio of 7.45:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #445B41?

Its complementary colour is #58415B, and analogous partners are #515B41 and #415B4B.