Haiti
#2c2a35
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
#2c2a35
RGB
44, 42, 53
OKLCh
29.2% 0.020 293.5°
CIELAB (D50)
17.6, 3.0, -6.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 12% 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 100.8; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
14.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2c2a35
protanopia
#2a2a35 · ΔE00 1.3
deuteranopia
#2b2b35 · ΔE00 1.4
tritanopia
#2b2b30 · ΔE00 3.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMangu Black at ΔE00 2.265: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Mangu BlackΔE00 2.265 · #292938
- Deep WellΔE00 2.302 · #33313b
- Black RockΔE00 2.621 · #2c2d3c
- To Hell and BlackΔE00 3.158 · #25212a
- Closed ShutterΔE00 3.18 · #25252c
- Witches CauldronΔE00 3.202 · #35343f
- JaguarΔE00 3.253 · #29292f
- BastilleΔE00 3.26 · #2c2c32
- Smiler’s MistΔE00 3.417 · #313138
- Parisian NightΔE00 3.474 · #323341
- Black OnyxΔE00 3.52 · #2a272c
- Black SafflowerΔE00 3.539 · #302833
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.