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#465B4E

Hunter Green · dark cool green

About #465B4E

#465B4E is a muted, dark shade in the green family. On screen it is built from 27% red, 36% green and 31% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 23% cyan, 0% magenta, 14% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

Of the common colour names it is somewhere between Hunter Green and Dark Teal (ΔE 16.0); Dark Teal comes next. Its complementary colour, directly opposite on the colour wheel, is #5B4653 — a eggplant tone that gives the strongest contrast in hue.

Designers tend to use dark tones like #465B4E for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. White text reads best on it at 7.33:1 (a WCAG AAA pass). Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (7.33:1).

Colour codes

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Red70
Green91
Blue78

Closest named colours

Hunter Green
#355E3B · ΔE 16.0
Dark Teal
#014D4E · ΔE 16.2
Eucalyptus
#5F8575 · ΔE 16.8

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

Text on #465B4E

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #465B4E.
7.33:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #465B4E.
2.87:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #465B4E appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#465B4E
Protanopia (no red cones)
#5B584D
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#57554F
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#425B57

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #465B4E?

#465B4E is a muted, dark shade in the green family. On screen it is built from 27% red, 36% green and 31% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 23% cyan, 0% magenta, 14% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

›What text colour should I use on #465B4E?

Use white text. White on #465B4E has a contrast ratio of 7.33:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #465B4E?

Its complementary colour is #5B4653, and analogous partners are #485B46 and #465B59.