Diesel
#322c2b
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
#322c2b
RGB
50, 44, 43
OKLCh
29.9% 0.009 29.0°
CIELAB (D50)
18.6, 2.7, 1.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 7% 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 100.3; 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 15.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.53:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#322c2b
protanopia
#2d2d2b · ΔE00 4.2
deuteranopia
#2e2e2b · ΔE00 4.5
tritanopia
#2f2f0d · ΔE00 15.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLivid Brown at ΔE00 0.851: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Livid BrownΔE00 0.851 · #312a29
- Deep Daichi BlackΔE00 0.9 · #322d2d
- Night RiderΔE00 1.044 · #332e2e
- NoirΔE00 1.991 · #312b27
- Holy CrowΔE00 2.146 · #332f2c
- GondolaΔE00 2.474 · #373332
- Deep BrownΔE00 2.548 · #342a2a
- Industrial BlackΔE00 2.567 · #322b26
- Gold BlackΔE00 2.599 · #2a2424
- Indigo Ink BrownΔE00 2.667 · #393432
- Bokara GreyΔE00 2.812 · #2a2725
- Oil GreyΔE00 3.085 · #3b3131
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.