Phantom Ship
#2f3434
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
#2f3434
RGB
47, 52, 52
OKLCh
32.0% 0.007 196.8°
CIELAB (D50)
21.2, -2.2, -0.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 98.7; 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 9.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.66:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2f3434
protanopia
#333334 · ΔE00 3.3
deuteranopia
#333334 · ΔE00 3.5
tritanopia
#323241 · ΔE00 9.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCharcoal at ΔE00 1.572: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- CharcoalΔE00 1.572 · #343837
- Japanese SableΔE00 1.602 · #313739
- Nocturnal GreenΔE00 1.817 · #2f3738
- Tàn Hēi SootΔE00 1.834 · #323939
- Wet ConcreteΔE00 1.883 · #353838
- WoodsmokeΔE00 2.024 · #2b3230
- Onyx HeartΔE00 2.083 · #353839
- Cod GreyΔE00 2.252 · #2d3032
- Black of NightΔE00 2.294 · #323639
- Pirate BlackΔE00 2.387 · #363838
- Green BlackΔE00 2.417 · #373a3a
- OilΔE00 2.519 · #313330
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.