After Dark
#3c3535
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
#3c3535
RGB
60, 53, 53
OKLCh
33.6% 0.010 17.7°
CIELAB (D50)
22.9, 3.2, 1.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 7% 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 97.5; 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 5.0 and 17.6 — no green cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.98:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.75:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.98:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c3535
protanopia
#363635 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#373735 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#393913 · ΔE00 17.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isEclipse at ΔE00 1.374: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- EclipseΔE00 1.374 · #3f3939
- Indigo Ink BrownΔE00 1.935 · #393432
- Oil GreyΔE00 2.052 · #3b3131
- PitchΔE00 2.102 · #423937
- Deep Forest BrownΔE00 2.164 · #393437
- GondolaΔE00 2.185 · #373332
- Brownish BlackΔE00 2.284 · #413936
- Chocolate TorteΔE00 2.294 · #403534
- KilimanjaroΔE00 2.424 · #3a3532
- Night RiderΔE00 2.655 · #332e2e
- Void Wellness CoachΔE00 2.656 · #41373a
- Binrouji BlackΔE00 2.687 · #433d3c
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.