Marshland
#2b2e26
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
#2b2e26
RGB
43, 46, 38
OKLCh
29.5% 0.015 124.0°
CIELAB (D50)
18.4, -2.7, 4.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 20% 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 100.4; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 7.4 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.80:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.80:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#2b2e26
protanopia
#2e2e26 · ΔE00 2.0
deuteranopia
#2d2d26 · ΔE00 2.1
tritanopia
#2d2d2f · ΔE00 7.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isRangoon Green at ΔE00 0.544: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Rangoon GreenΔE00 0.544 · #2b2e25
- EternityΔE00 0.968 · #2d2f28
- Green WaterlooΔE00 1.409 · #2c2d24
- Melanite Black GreenΔE00 1.889 · #282e27
- KarakaΔE00 2.036 · #2d2d24
- Pine TreeΔE00 2.406 · #2a2f23
- Ebony WoodΔE00 2.55 · #2c3227
- Night GreenΔE00 2.744 · #302f27
- Black PowderΔE00 2.906 · #34342c
- Terminal BlackΔE00 3.051 · #2b322d
- MaireΔE00 3.071 · #2a2922
- Bitter LiquoriceΔE00 3.271 · #262926
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.