Heavy Charcoal
#565350
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is mid — the hardest range to put text on, either colour struggles.
Hex
#565350
RGB
86, 83, 80
OKLCh
44.4% 0.006 67.7°
CIELAB (D50)
35.5, 0.8, 2.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 12 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 6% 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 86.6; on black, Lc -15.5. 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
7.64:1 — passes AA
Black text
2.75:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at7.64:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#565350
protanopia
#535350 · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#545450 · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#545446 · ΔE00 6.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTundora at ΔE00 1.041: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TundoraΔE00 1.041 · #585452
- Pure BlackΔE00 1.184 · #595652
- German GreyΔE00 1.185 · #53504e
- Dark CavernΔE00 1.515 · #55504d
- Catskill BrownΔE00 1.543 · #595452
- Jet FuelΔE00 1.586 · #575654
- Dominant GreyΔE00 1.604 · #5a5651
- Equestrian LeatherΔE00 1.704 · #5b5652
- Berry BrownΔE00 1.744 · #544f4c
- BlackjackΔE00 1.747 · #51504d
- PepperyΔE00 1.86 · #5b5752
- Urbane BronzeΔE00 1.998 · #54504a
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.