Holy Crow
#332f2c
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
#332f2c
RGB
51, 47, 44
OKLCh
30.8% 0.008 59.4°
CIELAB (D50)
19.7, 1.4, 2.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 11% 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 99.6; 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 10.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.58:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#332f2c
protanopia
#2f2f2c · ΔE00 2.9
deuteranopia
#30302c · ΔE00 3.1
tritanopia
#31311b · ΔE00 10.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAcadia at ΔE00 1.386: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- AcadiaΔE00 1.386 · #35312c
- Dryad BarkΔE00 1.701 · #33312d
- NoirΔE00 1.797 · #312b27
- Sinister MinisterΔE00 1.819 · #353331
- GondolaΔE00 1.866 · #373332
- Indigo Ink BrownΔE00 1.962 · #393432
- KilimanjaroΔE00 2.091 · #3a3532
- DieselΔE00 2.146 · #322c2b
- Night RiderΔE00 2.184 · #332e2e
- Deep Daichi BlackΔE00 2.239 · #322d2d
- Industrial BlackΔE00 2.405 · #322b26
- Bokara GreyΔE00 2.711 · #2a2725
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.