Charcoal

#463f49

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for charcoal, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Charcoal carries almost no chroma, so it works as a neutral. Neutrals like this hold a palette together quietly. Almost anything sits on top of it, which is what makes a good neutral useful.

Charcoal color values

Every conversion for #463f49, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#463f49

RGB70, 63, 73

HSL282, 7%, 27%

HSV282, 14%, 29%

CMYK4%, 14%, 0%, 71%

Lab27.68, 5.2, -4.98

XYZ5.51, 5.34, 7.04

Decimal4603721

Web safe#333333

Pantone532 C

Shades of charcoal

#413a43 #3b353e #363038 #302b32 #2b272d #252227 #201d21 #1b181c #151316 #100e10

Tints of charcoal

#584f5c #6b606f #7d7082 #8f8394 #a096a4 #b1a9b5 #c2bcc5 #d4cfd6 #e5e2e6 #f6f5f7

Colors that go with charcoal

Complementary#42493f Analogous#413f49 Analogous#493f47 Triadic#49463f Triadic#3f4946 Split complementary#47493f Split complementary#3f4941

Charcoal in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 4, 14, 0, 71.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #463f49 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

4 14 0 71

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

8 17 4 77

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Charcoal in css

Copy #463f49 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #463f49; }
.text { color: #463f49; }
.border { border: 2px solid #463f49; }

How charcoal looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Charcoal and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #463f49 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #463f49 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Charcoal on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #463f49 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around charcoal? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn charcoal into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #463f49 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from charcoal, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #463f49 is computed, not guessed. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.