Graphite
#383428
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
#383428
RGB
56, 52, 40
OKLCh
32.5% 0.021 91.8°
CIELAB (D50)
21.8, 0.1, 8.3
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 32% 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 98.3; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 9.5 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.43:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.69:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.43:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#383428
protanopia
#343428 · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#353528 · ΔE00 2.9
tritanopia
#363611 · ΔE00 9.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSensaicha Brown at ΔE00 2.218: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Sensaicha BrownΔE00 2.218 · #3b3429
- CreoleΔE00 2.263 · #393227
- RosinΔE00 2.657 · #39382f
- Agrax EarthshadeΔE00 3.081 · #393121
- El PasoΔE00 3.094 · #39392c
- Night Brown BlackΔE00 3.13 · #322d25
- Night GreenΔE00 3.165 · #302f27
- Black PowderΔE00 3.203 · #34342c
- BirchΔE00 3.294 · #3f3726
- Melon SeedΔE00 3.439 · #332c22
- Metal Construction GreenΔE00 3.447 · #2f2e1f
- Go to Hell BlackΔE00 3.725 · #342c21
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.