Melanzane
#342931
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
#342931
RGB
52, 41, 49
OKLCh
29.6% 0.021 336.0°
CIELAB (D50)
18.1, 6.5, -3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits 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 100.6; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.7 and 7.0 and 25.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.51:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#342931
protanopia
#2a2a31 · ΔE00 6.7
deuteranopia
#2d2d31 · ΔE00 7.0
tritanopia
#2f2f00 · ΔE00 25.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMystical Shadow at ΔE00 1.799: 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 1.799 · #352b30
- Valentino NeroΔE00 2.298 · #382c38
- Smoky CharcoalΔE00 2.318 · #34282c
- Black SafflowerΔE00 2.383 · #302833
- ShikonΔE00 2.839 · #2b2028
- Disappearing PurpleΔE00 3.139 · #3f313a
- Lava BlackΔE00 3.241 · #352f36
- Delighted ChimpΔE00 3.275 · #2e212d
- Zeus PalaceΔE00 3.768 · #3c343d
- Wolf’s BaneΔE00 3.921 · #3d343f
- GanacheΔE00 4.045 · #372b2c
- Treasure SeekerΔE00 4.216 · #3f363d
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.