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#3d322e
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
#3d322e
RGB
61, 50, 46
OKLCh
32.8% 0.017 41.0°
CIELAB (D50)
21.9, 4.5, 4.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 17% 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 98.2; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 7.4 and 8.1 and 19.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.40:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.69:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.40:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3d322e
protanopia
#33332e · ΔE00 7.4
deuteranopia
#35352e · ΔE00 8.1
tritanopia
#383800 · ΔE00 19.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlackest Brown at ΔE00 1.394: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Blackest BrownΔE00 1.394 · #403330
- BloodstoneΔE00 1.527 · #413431
- SkilandisΔE00 1.69 · #41332f
- Chinese InkΔE00 1.852 · #3f312b
- Black CoffeeΔE00 1.96 · #3e3231
- MoleΔE00 2.058 · #392d2b
- Chocolate TorteΔE00 2.09 · #403534
- Bruno BrownΔE00 2.297 · #433430
- Oil GreyΔE00 2.456 · #3b3131
- RockweedΔE00 2.464 · #443735
- AubergeΔE00 2.544 · #3f3130
- RoanokeΔE00 2.56 · #372b25
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.