Kilimanjaro
#3a3532
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
#3a3532
RGB
58, 53, 50
OKLCh
33.3% 0.009 53.2°
CIELAB (D50)
22.6, 1.8, 2.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 10% 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 97.7; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 12.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.74:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3a3532
protanopia
#363632 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#373732 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#38381c · ΔE00 12.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isIndigo Ink Brown at ΔE00 0.707: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Indigo Ink BrownΔE00 0.707 · #393432
- Fired EarthΔE00 1.422 · #3d3732
- GondolaΔE00 1.492 · #373332
- AcadiaΔE00 2.08 · #35312c
- Holy CrowΔE00 2.091 · #332f2c
- Sinister MinisterΔE00 2.122 · #353331
- Knights of the DesertΔE00 2.306 · #403c39
- Brownish BlackΔE00 2.352 · #413936
- After DarkΔE00 2.424 · #3c3535
- EclipseΔE00 2.533 · #3f3939
- Dryad BarkΔE00 2.695 · #33312d
- Night RiderΔE00 2.927 · #332e2e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.