Witches Cauldron
#35343f
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
#35343f
RGB
53, 52, 63
OKLCh
33.1% 0.019 289.5°
CIELAB (D50)
22.1, 2.5, -6.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 10% 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 98.0; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
12.25:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.71:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.25:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#35343f
protanopia
#34343f · ΔE00 0.6
deuteranopia
#34343f · ΔE00 0.7
tritanopia
#34343c · ΔE00 1.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSceptre Blue at ΔE00 1.127: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Sceptre BlueΔE00 1.127 · #353542
- Deep WellΔE00 1.184 · #33313b
- RevolverΔE00 1.234 · #37363f
- Black MarlinΔE00 1.43 · #383740
- Parisian NightΔE00 1.824 · #323341
- Persian PrinceΔE00 1.869 · #38343e
- Professor PlumΔE00 1.879 · #393540
- Smiler’s MistΔE00 2.553 · #313138
- Blue GraphiteΔE00 2.559 · #3a383f
- SaluteΔE00 2.639 · #2f323d
- Very BlackΔE00 2.754 · #34363e
- Ship GreyΔE00 2.824 · #3e3a44
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.