Ethereal Espresso
#3e2723
A red that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#3e2723
RGB
62, 39, 35
OKLCh
30.0% 0.036 30.2°
CIELAB (D50)
18.5, 10.7, 7.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 30% 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 14.3 and 15.9 and 22.5 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
13.82:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.52:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at13.82:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#3e2723
protanopia
#2a2a23 · ΔE00 14.3
deuteranopia
#2f2f22 · ΔE00 15.9
tritanopia
#343400 · ΔE00 22.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isPolished Mahogany at ΔE00 2.123: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Polished MahoganyΔE00 2.123 · #432722
- Night RedΔE00 2.379 · #3c2727
- ScorchedΔE00 2.894 · #351f19
- Brown PodΔE00 2.905 · #3c241b
- Black KiteΔE00 2.941 · #351e1c
- Tree HouseΔE00 3.033 · #3b2820
- English WalnutΔE00 3.175 · #3e2b23
- Woodsy BrownΔE00 3.337 · #3d271d
- Old BurgundyΔE00 3.426 · #43302e
- Benikeshinezumi PurpleΔE00 3.54 · #44312e
- Brown CoffeeΔE00 3.603 · #4a2c2a
- Barako BrewΔE00 3.671 · #4b2d2a
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.