Havana
#3b2b2c
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
#3b2b2c
RGB
59, 43, 44
OKLCh
30.8% 0.024 14.4°
CIELAB (D50)
19.5, 7.8, 2.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 19% 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 99.8; 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 9.7 and 11.0 and 23.4 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.57:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3b2b2c
protanopia
#2d2d2c · ΔE00 9.7
deuteranopia
#30302c · ΔE00 11.0
tritanopia
#343400 · ΔE00 23.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChocolate Plum at ΔE00 1.413: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Chocolate PlumΔE00 1.413 · #3f2f31
- Venous Blood RedΔE00 2.013 · #3f3033
- GanacheΔE00 2.066 · #372b2c
- AubergineΔE00 2.271 · #372528
- AubergeΔE00 2.352 · #3f3130
- Smoked Black CoffeeΔE00 2.388 · #3b2f2f
- Old BurgundyΔE00 2.768 · #43302e
- MoleΔE00 2.795 · #392d2b
- HornblendeΔE00 2.925 · #332222
- Smoky CharcoalΔE00 2.932 · #34282c
- Black CoffeeΔE00 3.112 · #3e3231
- Deep BrownΔE00 3.286 · #342a2a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.