CSS named color

Dark Slate Gray #2F4F4F

Also known as Darkslategrey

Dark Slate Gray is dark muted cyan. Below: every color format, WCAG contrast against black and white, its tints, shades and tones, and the harmonies that pair with it.

Color values

Contrast & accessibility

WCAG contrast ratio of Dark Slate Gray used as a foreground on white and black backgrounds.

Aa The quick brown fox
8.93:1

On white

AA ✓ AAA ✓ AA Large ✓
Aa The quick brown fox
2.35:1

On black

AA ✕ AAA ✕ AA Large ✕

Tints, shades & tones

Systematic variations of Dark Slate Gray — click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tintsmixed toward white
Shadesmixed toward black
Tonesmixed toward gray

Simulated colour vision

How Dark Slate Gray reads under the four common colour-vision deficiencies, using the standard Machado (2009) matrices at full severity. A simulation, not a measurement of any one person's vision; the point is whether this colour still does its job when hue drops out.

Typical vision#2F4F4F

Tailwind-style ramp

Eleven steps from 50 to 950 with the hue and saturation of Dark Slate Gray held and only lightness stepped. Computed, not curated: the 500 step sits closest to the source, which is where Tailwind puts a brand colour.

Color harmonies

Palettes built from Dark Slate Gray by rotating its hue. Each swatch links to its closest named color.

Use Dark Slate Gray in your stack

Tailwind (arbitrary value)

Works for any property: text-[#2f4f4f], border-[#2f4f4f].

CSS custom property

Reference it anywhere with var(--color).

Build a full theme

Turn Dark Slate Gray into a complete shadcn/ui palette — light & dark, contrast-checked, one-command install.

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