Mystical Shadow
#352b30
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
#352b30
RGB
53, 43, 48
OKLCh
30.2% 0.017 346.6°
CIELAB (D50)
18.8, 5.5, -1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 100.2; 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 6.2 and 6.6 and 23.8 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.54:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#352b30
protanopia
#2c2c30 · ΔE00 6.2
deuteranopia
#2e2e30 · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#303000 · ΔE00 23.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmoky Charcoal 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.
- Smoky CharcoalΔE00 1.513 · #34282c
- MelanzaneΔE00 1.799 · #342931
- GanacheΔE00 2.58 · #372b2c
- Lava BlackΔE00 2.749 · #352f36
- Deep BrownΔE00 2.989 · #342a2a
- Smoked Black CoffeeΔE00 3.373 · #3b2f2f
- Venous Blood RedΔE00 3.405 · #3f3033
- Oil GreyΔE00 3.472 · #3b3131
- Disappearing PurpleΔE00 3.587 · #3f313a
- Black SafflowerΔE00 3.629 · #302833
- Monastery MantleΔE00 3.661 · #41363a
- Treasure SeekerΔE00 3.703 · #3f363d
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.