Terminal Black
#2b322d
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#2b322d
RGB
43, 50, 45
OKLCh
30.9% 0.013 154.5°
CIELAB (D50)
20.0, -4.0, 2.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 17% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 99.5; on black, Lc 0.0. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.15:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.60:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.15:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2b322d
protanopia
#31312d · ΔE00 4.4
deuteranopia
#30302d · ΔE00 4.6
tritanopia
#2f2f3f · ΔE00 13.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMelanite Black Green at ΔE00 1.789: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Melanite Black GreenΔE00 1.789 · #282e27
- WoodsmokeΔE00 1.828 · #2b3230
- Jet SetΔE00 2.04 · #2f3734
- Midnight MossΔE00 2.312 · #242e28
- Pitch GreenΔE00 2.318 · #283330
- Gordons GreenΔE00 2.324 · #29332b
- AztecΔE00 2.667 · #293432
- Aimiru BrownΔE00 2.771 · #2e372e
- Tetsu BlackΔE00 2.852 · #2b3733
- ArdósiaΔE00 3.027 · #232f2c
- MarshlandΔE00 3.051 · #2b2e26
- Concealed GreenΔE00 3.095 · #263130
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.