Dark Charcoal
#333232
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
#333232
RGB
51, 50, 50
OKLCh
31.8% 0.001 17.2°
CIELAB (D50)
20.9, 0.5, 0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 98.9; 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
12.78:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.64:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.78:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#333232
protanopia
#323232 · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#323232 · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#32322f · ΔE00 2.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTomcat at ΔE00 0.697: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- TomcatΔE00 0.697 · #323232
- CarbonΔE00 0.736 · #333333
- JetΔE00 0.898 · #343434
- Off BlackΔE00 0.994 · #303030
- Tricorn BlackΔE00 1.353 · #2f2f30
- Sinister MinisterΔE00 1.441 · #353331
- Carbon FibreΔE00 1.518 · #2e2e2e
- CoatedΔE00 1.815 · #2e2f30
- Tap ShoeΔE00 1.921 · #2f3032
- Lacquered LiquoriceΔE00 1.988 · #383838
- StilettoΔE00 1.993 · #323235
- Dark GreyΔE00 2.016 · #363737
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.