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#4E333F

Eggplant · dark warm pink

About #4E333F

With the hex code #4E333F, this is a dark pink with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 31% red, 20% green and 25% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 35% magenta, 19% yellow and 69% black. It reads as a warm colour.

If you had to name it, it is very close to Eggplant — a ΔE of 7.4 — followed by Graphite. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #334E42, a dark teal 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 — 11.23:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (11.23:1).

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Red78
Green51
Blue63

Closest named colours

Eggplant
#614051 · ΔE 7.4
Graphite
#383838 · ΔE 14.6
Espresso
#3B2A20 · ΔE 15.8

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

Text on #4E333F

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on eggplant #4E333F.
11.23:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on eggplant #4E333F.
1.87:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #4E333F appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#4E333F
Protanopia (no red cones)
#36383F
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#3C3D3E
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#523237

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #4E333F?

With the hex code #4E333F, this is a dark pink with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 31% red, 20% green and 25% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 35% magenta, 19% yellow and 69% black. It reads as a warm colour.

›What text colour should I use on #4E333F?

Use white text. White on #4E333F has a contrast ratio of 11.23:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #4E333F?

Its complementary colour is #334E42, and analogous partners are #4E334D and #4E3433.