Cowboy
#443736
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
#443736
RGB
68, 55, 54
OKLCh
35.0% 0.019 23.3°
CIELAB (D50)
24.5, 5.8, 2.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 11 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 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 96.2; 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 8.2 and 9.0 and 22.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.85:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#443736
protanopia
#393936 · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#3b3b36 · ΔE00 9.0
tritanopia
#3e3e00 · ΔE00 22.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isReddish Black at ΔE00 0.325: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Reddish BlackΔE00 0.325 · #433635
- RockweedΔE00 0.586 · #443735
- Chocolate TorteΔE00 1.299 · #403534
- Humpback WhaleΔE00 1.478 · #473b3b
- BloodstoneΔE00 1.556 · #413431
- Noblesse ObligeΔE00 1.631 · #463636
- Warm Operator’s OverallsΔE00 1.701 · #483838
- Black CoffeeΔE00 1.75 · #3e3231
- Dark TaupeΔE00 1.768 · #483c3c
- Blackest BrownΔE00 1.785 · #403330
- AubergeΔE00 1.956 · #3f3130
- Bruno BrownΔE00 2.146 · #433430
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.