Aubergine
#372528
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
#372528
RGB
55, 37, 40
OKLCh
28.7% 0.028 7.9°
CIELAB (D50)
17.0, 9.2, 1.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 24% 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 101.1; 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 10.5 and 12.0 and 24.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.41:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.46:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.41:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#372528
protanopia
#272728 · ΔE00 10.5
deuteranopia
#2b2b28 · ΔE00 12.0
tritanopia
#2f2f00 · ΔE00 24.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHornblende at ΔE00 2.038: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- HornblendeΔE00 2.038 · #332222
- HavanaΔE00 2.271 · #3b2b2c
- Smoky CharcoalΔE00 3.191 · #34282c
- Chocolate PlumΔE00 3.239 · #3f2f31
- GanacheΔE00 3.565 · #372b2c
- Venous Blood RedΔE00 3.649 · #3f3033
- Old BurgundyΔE00 4.436 · #43302e
- Smoked Black CoffeeΔE00 4.45 · #3b2f2f
- Mystical ShadowΔE00 4.576 · #352b30
- Deep BrownΔE00 4.608 · #342a2a
- AubergeΔE00 4.622 · #3f3130
- MoleΔE00 4.721 · #392d2b
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.