Wood Bark
#302621
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
#302621
RGB
48, 38, 33
OKLCh
27.8% 0.018 48.1°
CIELAB (D50)
16.2, 4.1, 5.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 23% 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 101.6; 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 7.2 and 7.7 and 16.2 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.74:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.42:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.74:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#302621
protanopia
#272721 · ΔE00 7.2
deuteranopia
#292921 · ΔE00 7.7
tritanopia
#2b2b00 · ΔE00 16.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBetel Nut Dye at ΔE00 1.764: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Betel Nut DyeΔE00 1.764 · #352925
- RoanokeΔE00 2.032 · #372b25
- WeathervaneΔE00 2.233 · #2c201a
- Kenpōzome BlackΔE00 2.32 · #2e211b
- Industrial BlackΔE00 2.378 · #322b26
- Coffee BeanΔE00 2.588 · #362d26
- NoirΔE00 2.854 · #312b27
- Cocoa BrownΔE00 3.111 · #35281e
- Livid BrownΔE00 3.152 · #312a29
- MoleΔE00 3.329 · #392d2b
- Deep BrownΔE00 3.438 · #342a2a
- Orka BlackΔE00 3.518 · #27221f
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.