Smoky Charcoal
#34282c
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
#34282c
RGB
52, 40, 44
OKLCh
29.2% 0.019 356.4°
CIELAB (D50)
17.6, 6.4, -0.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 16% 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.4 and 7.9 and 23.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.13:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.49:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.13:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#34282c
protanopia
#2a2a2c · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#2c2c2c · ΔE00 7.9
tritanopia
#2e2e00 · ΔE00 23.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMystical Shadow at ΔE00 1.513: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Mystical ShadowΔE00 1.513 · #352b30
- GanacheΔE00 1.97 · #372b2c
- MelanzaneΔE00 2.318 · #342931
- Deep BrownΔE00 2.663 · #342a2a
- HavanaΔE00 2.932 · #3b2b2c
- Venous Blood RedΔE00 3.156 · #3f3033
- Smoked Black CoffeeΔE00 3.185 · #3b2f2f
- AubergineΔE00 3.191 · #372528
- Chocolate PlumΔE00 3.368 · #3f2f31
- ShikonΔE00 3.452 · #2b2028
- Oil GreyΔE00 3.755 · #3b3131
- MoleΔE00 3.858 · #392d2b
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.