Deep Forest
#3c463e
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
#3c463e
RGB
60, 70, 62
OKLCh
38.2% 0.019 151.2°
CIELAB (D50)
28.6, -5.6, 3.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 92.8; on black, Lc -9.7. 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 5.7 and 5.9 and 17.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.14:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c463e
protanopia
#45453e · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#43433e · ΔE00 5.9
tritanopia
#414158 · ΔE00 17.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRich Olive at ΔE00 0.849: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rich OliveΔE00 0.849 · #3e4740
- Olympic RangeΔE00 2.015 · #424c44
- Ancient PineΔE00 2.453 · #444b43
- Sporting GreenΔE00 2.763 · #434c47
- Black Forest GreenΔE00 2.787 · #424740
- Roycroft Bottle GreenΔE00 2.954 · #324038
- Nightly IvyΔE00 2.989 · #444940
- Deep MooringΔE00 3.01 · #3d4c46
- Dead Sea MudΔE00 3.085 · #3a403b
- Dard Hunter GreenΔE00 3.134 · #3a4a3f
- Foxhall GreenΔE00 3.172 · #454b40
- Park AvenueΔE00 3.377 · #465048
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.