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#484E33

Umber · dark warm green

About #484E33

With the hex code #484E33, this is a dark green with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 28% red, 31% green and 20% blue, while a printer would mix 8% cyan, 0% magenta, 35% yellow and 69% black. It reads as a warm colour.

If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Umber and Hunter Green — a ΔE of 15.5 — followed by Hunter Green. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #39334E, a prussian blue shade.

In design, a dark colour like this works best for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 8.70:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (8.70:1).

Colour codes

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Red72
Green78
Blue51

Closest named colours

Umber
#635147 · ΔE 15.5
Hunter Green
#355E3B · ΔE 15.7
Walnut
#5C4033 · ΔE 18.3

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

Text on #484E33

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on umber #484E33.
8.70:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on umber #484E33.
2.41:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #484E33 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#484E33
Protanopia (no red cones)
#514B31
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#514B34
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#4B4B47

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #484E33?

With the hex code #484E33, this is a dark green with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 28% red, 31% green and 20% blue, while a printer would mix 8% cyan, 0% magenta, 35% yellow and 69% black. It reads as a warm colour.

›What text colour should I use on #484E33?

Use white text. White on #484E33 has a contrast ratio of 8.70:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #484E33?

Its complementary colour is #39334E, and analogous partners are #4E4733 and #3A4E33.