#455E5B
Charcoal · dark cool teal
About #455E5B
#455E5B is a muted, dark shade in the teal family. On screen it is built from 27% red, 37% green and 36% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 27% cyan, 0% magenta, 3% yellow and 63% black. Its overall feel is cool.
Of the common colour names it is similar to Charcoal (ΔE 13.4); Dark Teal comes next. Its complementary colour, directly opposite on the colour wheel, is #5E4548 — a eggplant tone that gives the strongest contrast in hue.
Designers tend to use dark tones like #455E5B for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 6.99:1, a WCAG AA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (6.99:1).
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ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.
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Frequently asked questions
›What colour is #455E5B?
#455E5B is a muted, dark shade in the teal family. On screen it is built from 27% red, 37% green and 36% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 27% cyan, 0% magenta, 3% yellow and 63% black. Its overall feel is cool.
›What text colour should I use on #455E5B?
Use white text. White on #455E5B has a contrast ratio of 6.99:1 (AA).
›What colours go with #455E5B?
Its complementary colour is #5E4548, and analogous partners are #455E4E and #45555E.