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#4E5E4D

Hunter Green · dark cool gray

About #4E5E4D

With the hex code #4E5E4D, this is a dark gray with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 31% red, 37% green and 30% blue, while a printer would mix 17% cyan, 0% magenta, 18% yellow and 63% black. It reads as a cool colour.

If you had to name it, it is somewhere between Hunter Green and Umber — a ΔE of 15.3 — followed by Umber. For maximum hue contrast, pair it with its complement #5D4D5E, 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 — 6.93:1, a WCAG AA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (6.93:1).

Colour codes

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Red78
Green94
Blue77

Closest named colours

Hunter Green
#355E3B · ΔE 15.3
Umber
#635147 · ΔE 15.8
Eucalyptus
#5F8575 · ΔE 16.2

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

Text on #4E5E4D

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #4E5E4D.
6.93:1AA
Black heading text
Body copy set on hunter green #4E5E4D.
3.03:1AA Large

Colour-blindness preview

How #4E5E4D appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#4E5E4D
Protanopia (no red cones)
#5F5B4C
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#5C594E
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#4D5D59

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #4E5E4D?

With the hex code #4E5E4D, this is a dark gray with a muted character. Its RGB recipe is 31% red, 37% green and 30% blue, while a printer would mix 17% cyan, 0% magenta, 18% yellow and 63% black. It reads as a cool colour.

›What text colour should I use on #4E5E4D?

Use white text. White on #4E5E4D has a contrast ratio of 6.93:1 (AA).

›What colours go with #4E5E4D?

Its complementary colour is #5D4D5E, and analogous partners are #575E4D and #4D5E55.