#495C51
Charcoal · dark cool gray
About #495C51
With the hex code #495C51, this is a dark gray with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 29% red, 36% green and 32% blue, while a printer would mix 21% cyan, 0% magenta, 12% yellow and 64% black. It reads as a cool colour.
If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Charcoal and Umber — a ΔE of 16.2 — followed by Umber. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #5C4954, a eggplant 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 — 7.16:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (7.16:1).
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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 #495C51?
With the hex code #495C51, this is a dark gray with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 29% red, 36% green and 32% blue, while a printer would mix 21% cyan, 0% magenta, 12% yellow and 64% black. It reads as a cool colour.
›What text colour should I use on #495C51?
Use white text. White on #495C51 has a contrast ratio of 7.16:1 (AAA).
›What colours go with #495C51?
Its complementary colour is #5C4954, and analogous partners are #4A5C49 and #495C5B.