#4E394B
Eggplant · dark warm pink
About #4E394B
With the hex code #4E394B, this is a dark pink with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 31% red, 22% green and 29% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 27% magenta, 4% 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 7.0 — followed by Graphite. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #394E3C, a hunter green 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 — 10.44:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (10.44:1).
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ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.
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›What colour is #4E394B?
With the hex code #4E394B, this is a dark pink with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 31% red, 22% green and 29% blue, while a printer would mix 0% cyan, 27% magenta, 4% yellow and 69% black. It reads as a warm colour.
›What text colour should I use on #4E394B?
Use white text. White on #4E394B has a contrast ratio of 10.44:1 (AAA).
›What colours go with #4E394B?
Its complementary colour is #394E3C, and analogous partners are #47394E and #4E3940.