Night Rider
#332e2e
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
#332e2e
RGB
51, 46, 46
OKLCh
30.6% 0.007 17.6°
CIELAB (D50)
19.5, 2.3, 0.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 6% 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 99.8; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.37:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.57:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.37:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#332e2e
protanopia
#2f2f2e · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#30302e · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#313119 · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDeep Daichi Black at ΔE00 0.319: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Deep Daichi BlackΔE00 0.319 · #322d2d
- DieselΔE00 1.044 · #322c2b
- Livid BrownΔE00 1.79 · #312a29
- GondolaΔE00 1.806 · #373332
- Holy CrowΔE00 2.184 · #332f2c
- Indigo Ink BrownΔE00 2.291 · #393432
- Black TortoiseΔE00 2.502 · #353235
- After DarkΔE00 2.655 · #3c3535
- Deep Forest BrownΔE00 2.722 · #393437
- NoirΔE00 2.774 · #312b27
- Dark CharcoalΔE00 2.818 · #333232
- Sinister MinisterΔE00 2.888 · #353331
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.