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#59445B

Eggplant · dark cool pink

About #59445B

#59445B is a muted, dark shade in the pink family. On screen it is built from 35% red, 27% green and 36% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 2% cyan, 25% magenta, 0% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

Of the common colour names it is very close to Eggplant (ΔE 6.9); Charcoal comes next. Its complementary colour, directly opposite on the colour wheel, is #465B44 — a hunter green tone that gives the strongest contrast in hue.

Designers tend to use dark tones like #59445B for headings, body text, footers and dark-mode backgrounds. Put white text on top of it — 8.74:1, a WCAG AAA pass. Used as a text colour on white, it is readable too (8.74:1).

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Red89
Green68
Blue91

Closest named colours

Eggplant
#614051 · ΔE 6.9
Charcoal
#36454F · ΔE 17.3
Graphite
#383838 · ΔE 18.9

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

Text on #59445B

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on eggplant #59445B.
8.74:1AAA
Black heading text
Body copy set on eggplant #59445B.
2.40:1Fail

Colour-blindness preview

How #59445B appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#59445B
Protanopia (no red cones)
#42495C
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#474C5A
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#5A464C

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Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #59445B?

#59445B is a muted, dark shade in the pink family. On screen it is built from 35% red, 27% green and 36% blue; for print, its CMYK mix is 2% cyan, 25% magenta, 0% yellow and 64% black. Its overall feel is cool.

›What text colour should I use on #59445B?

Use white text. White on #59445B has a contrast ratio of 8.74:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #59445B?

Its complementary colour is #465B44, and analogous partners are #4E445B and #5B4452.