#494142 color: Shale
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Shale#494142
- ≈ Taupe
- Gray
- Dark
- Muted
- Neutral
- stone-700
- Black 71%
Looks the same on every screen.
White text9.91:1 · AALc -97
Black text2.12:1 · Below AALc 11
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About #494142
#494142 is a dark gray color. In OKLCH it has 38.4% lightness, 0.011 chroma and a hue of 9°.
Looks the same on every screen.
White text on it reaches 9.91:1 contrast and black text 2.12:1, so white text reads better.
The closest named color is Shale (#4a3f41). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is stone-700.