Black Olive
#3b3c36
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
#3b3c36
RGB
59, 60, 54
OKLCh
35.3% 0.010 114.6°
CIELAB (D50)
25.1, -1.4, 3.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 95.8; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
11.14:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.89:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.14:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3b3c36
protanopia
#3c3c36 · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#3c3c36 · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#3c3c39 · ΔE00 2.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isZeus at ΔE00 1.156: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- ZeusΔE00 1.156 · #3b3c38
- RosinΔE00 2.362 · #39382f
- Black PowderΔE00 2.871 · #34342c
- IridiumΔE00 2.888 · #3d3c3a
- Limousine LeatherΔE00 3.013 · #3b3c3b
- AndironΔE00 3.071 · #424036
- Sunday NiqabΔE00 3.106 · #3d4035
- Balsamic ReductionΔE00 3.135 · #434340
- Dead Sea MudΔE00 3.152 · #3a403b
- Volcanic Stone GreenΔE00 3.26 · #45433b
- Pasilla ChilesΔE00 3.296 · #44413b
- I R Dark GreenΔE00 3.337 · #404034
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.