Mole
#392d2b
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
#392d2b
RGB
57, 45, 43
OKLCh
31.0% 0.018 29.2°
CIELAB (D50)
19.8, 5.4, 3.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 14% 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 99.6; 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 8.0 and 8.7 and 20.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.58:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#392d2b
protanopia
#2f2f2b · ΔE00 8.0
deuteranopia
#31312b · ΔE00 8.7
tritanopia
#333300 · ΔE00 20.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSmoked Black Coffee at ΔE00 1.385: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Smoked Black CoffeeΔE00 1.385 · #3b2f2f
- Black CoffeeΔE00 1.732 · #3e3231
- Betel Nut DyeΔE00 1.801 · #352925
- AubergeΔE00 1.877 · #3f3130
- Deep BrownΔE00 1.884 · #342a2a
- GanacheΔE00 1.898 · #372b2c
- Oil GreyΔE00 1.995 · #3b3131
- Six Feet UnderΔE00 2.058 · #3d322e
- Blackest BrownΔE00 2.091 · #403330
- BloodstoneΔE00 2.394 · #413431
- SkilandisΔE00 2.476 · #41332f
- RoanokeΔE00 2.537 · #372b25
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.