Cola
#3c2f23
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
#3c2f23
RGB
60, 47, 35
OKLCh
31.6% 0.028 64.3°
CIELAB (D50)
20.6, 4.6, 10.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 39% 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 99.1; 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 9.0 and 9.4 and 15.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.94:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.62:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.94:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3c2f23
protanopia
#313123 · ΔE00 9.0
deuteranopia
#333323 · ΔE00 9.4
tritanopia
#363600 · ΔE00 15.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCola Bubble at ΔE00 0.66: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Cola BubbleΔE00 0.66 · #3c3024
- SambucaΔE00 1.647 · #3b2e25
- After EightΔE00 1.787 · #3d2e24
- Cocoa BrownΔE00 2.422 · #35281e
- SluggerΔE00 2.549 · #42342b
- Granite BrownΔE00 2.681 · #3d2d24
- Dark RumΔE00 2.743 · #45362b
- Jacko BeanΔE00 2.78 · #413628
- Vanilla Bean BrownΔE00 2.961 · #362c1d
- TobagoΔE00 3.025 · #44362d
- Coffee BeanΔE00 3.208 · #362d26
- Go to Hell BlackΔE00 3.228 · #342c21
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.