Creole
#393227
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
#393227
RGB
57, 50, 39
OKLCh
32.1% 0.021 79.0°
CIELAB (D50)
21.3, 1.7, 8.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- 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 98.7; 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.
- deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 5.1 and 13.4 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.65:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.66:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.65:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#393227
protanopia
#333327 · ΔE00 4.9
deuteranopia
#343427 · ΔE00 5.1
tritanopia
#363600 · ΔE00 13.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSensaicha Brown at ΔE00 0.644: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Sensaicha BrownΔE00 0.644 · #3b3429
- Melon SeedΔE00 1.958 · #332c22
- Go to Hell BlackΔE00 1.99 · #342c21
- GraphiteΔE00 2.263 · #383428
- Agrax EarthshadeΔE00 2.414 · #393121
- Night Brown BlackΔE00 2.439 · #322d25
- Jacko BeanΔE00 2.919 · #413628
- Vanilla Bean BrownΔE00 3.079 · #362c1d
- Cola BubbleΔE00 3.106 · #3c3024
- BirchΔE00 3.161 · #3f3726
- Coffee BeanΔE00 3.191 · #362d26
- AcadiaΔE00 3.501 · #35312c
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.