Starless Night
#3e4855
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
#3e4855
RGB
62, 72, 85
OKLCh
39.8% 0.026 255.1°
CIELAB (D50)
30.1, -1.6, -9.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses only 19% 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 91.4; on black, Lc -10.9. 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 6.1 and 11.0 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
9.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.26:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at9.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e4855
protanopia
#474755 · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#454555 · ΔE00 6.1
tritanopia
#434369 · ΔE00 11.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWhispered Secret at ΔE00 0.492: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Whispered SecretΔE00 0.492 · #3f4855
- Cape StormΔE00 0.617 · #3c4754
- Blue Sou’westerΔE00 0.63 · #404956
- RhinoΔE00 0.78 · #3d4653
- Boeing BlueΔE00 0.821 · #3d4652
- Soft SteelΔE00 0.922 · #404854
- Bank BlueΔE00 1.067 · #3e4652
- Dark NightΔE00 1.255 · #404b57
- Dutch LicoriceΔE00 1.602 · #404b56
- Bronze BlueΔE00 1.675 · #3a4856
- CavalryΔE00 1.713 · #3f4c5a
- Pit StopΔE00 1.738 · #414958
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.