#444451

sRGB: 68 / 68 / 81

Silver raindrops shimmer beneath moonlight
Sleeping valleys breathe beneath silver clouds
Tender memories surrender to silence

#444451 belongs to the blue family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 68 red, 68 green and 81 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 240.0° lands in the blue region. Its 8.7% saturation makes it close to gray at this lightness. HSL lightness is 29.2% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, white has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (9.58:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 68, 68, 81
HSL: 240.00°, 8.72%, 29.22%
HSV / HSB: 240.00°, 16.05%, 31.76%
CMYK (approx.): 16.05%, 16.05%, 0.00%, 68.24%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 5.936, 5.957, 8.622
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 29.304, 3.098, -7.767
WCAG relative luminance: 0.05957
24-bit decimal: 4473937

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #444451 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 2.19:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

White text: 9.58:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#515144 sits half a turn (180°) from #444451 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#444451 #515144

Analogous

#444A51 and #4A4451 sit 30° to either side of #444451. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#444A51 #444451 #4A4451

Triadic

#444451, #514444 and #445144 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#444451 #514444 #445144

Split complementary

Start at #444451 and look across the wheel. #514A44 and #4A5144 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#444451 #514A44 #4A5144

Square

Starting with #444451, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #51444A, #515144, then #44514A. Across the square, #444451 pairs with #515144, and #51444A with #44514A.

#444451 #51444A #515144 #44514A

Tetradic

#444451 and #515144 are opposites, as are #514451 and #445144. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#444451 #514451 #515144 #445144

Tints

Mixing #444451 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #696974, keeps 80% of the original. By #DADADC, the mixture is 80% white.

#444451 #696974 #8F8F97 #B4B4B9 #DADADC #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #444451 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #363641, keeps 80% of the original. By #0E0E10, the mixture is 80% black.

#444451 #363641 #292931 #1B1B20 #0E0E10 #000000

Tones

Mixing #444451 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #50505A, keeps 80% of the original. By #747477, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#444451 #50505A #5C5C64 #68686D #747477 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#444451

RGB

rgb(68 68 81)

HSL

hsl(240.000 8.725% 29.216%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #444451;
  color: #FFFFFF;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#444451 uses 68 red, 68 green and 81 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 26.7%

Green 26.7%

Blue 31.8%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #444451 is 16.0% cyan, 16.0% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 68.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 16.0%

Magenta 16.0%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 68.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #444455. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #445 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #444451 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #333366, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #444455 Nearest web-safe: #333366

Gradient to complement

#444451 #46464F #48484D #4B4B4B #4D4D48 #4F4F46 #515144

Color vision previews

Compare how #444451 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#414552

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#414551

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#414648

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#424551

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#424551

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#43454E

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#454545

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#45454B

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.05781 G 0.05781 B 0.08228

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.26667 G 0.26667 B 0.31348

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.05781 G 0.05781 B 0.08009

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.289 y 0.290 Y 5.957

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 73.333 M % 73.333 Y % 68.235

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

01000100 01000100 01010001