Go to Hell Black
#342c21
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
#342c21
RGB
52, 44, 33
OKLCh
29.8% 0.022 75.5°
CIELAB (D50)
18.6, 2.3, 8.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 35% 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 100.3; 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 5.7 and 6.0 and 12.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.53:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#342c21
protanopia
#2d2d21 · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#2e2e21 · ΔE00 6.0
tritanopia
#303000 · ΔE00 12.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMelon Seed at ΔE00 0.741: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Melon SeedΔE00 0.741 · #332c22
- CreoleΔE00 1.99 · #393227
- Vanilla Bean BrownΔE00 2.085 · #362c1d
- Night Brown BlackΔE00 2.291 · #322d25
- Coffee BeanΔE00 2.557 · #362d26
- Sensaicha BrownΔE00 2.604 · #3b3429
- Cola BubbleΔE00 2.812 · #3c3024
- Agrax EarthshadeΔE00 2.863 · #393121
- ColaΔE00 3.228 · #3c2f23
- Industrial BlackΔE00 3.367 · #322b26
- Cocoa BrownΔE00 3.516 · #35281e
- SambucaΔE00 3.69 · #3b2e25
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.