Dark Rum
#45362b
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
#45362b
RGB
69, 54, 43
OKLCh
34.6% 0.028 57.9°
CIELAB (D50)
24.0, 5.5, 9.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 34% 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 96.6; 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 10.0 and 10.6 and 17.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
11.57:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.82:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at11.57:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#45362b
protanopia
#38382b · ΔE00 10.0
deuteranopia
#3b3b2a · ΔE00 10.6
tritanopia
#3e3e00 · ΔE00 17.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTobago at ΔE00 1.066: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- TobagoΔE00 1.066 · #44362d
- SluggerΔE00 1.244 · #42342b
- Batch BrewΔE00 1.826 · #45392f
- DemitasseΔE00 2.167 · #493c31
- Dark CloveΔE00 2.321 · #4c3d31
- Slate BlackΔE00 2.354 · #4b3d33
- Ancient LavastoneΔE00 2.44 · #483c32
- Simmered SeaweedΔE00 2.463 · #4c3d30
- After EightΔE00 2.602 · #3d2e24
- Taupe BrownΔE00 2.624 · #483c30
- ColaΔE00 2.743 · #3c2f23
- Cola BubbleΔE00 2.856 · #3c3024
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.