Charcoal

The color code of Charcoal indicates, that green is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. As red and blue have almost equal intensities, green remains as dominant basic color for the initial color impression. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Charcoal is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 6 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 20 %, Charcoal is a quite dark color.

Hex	`#283829`
RGB	`rgb(40, 56, 41)`
HSL*	`hsl(124, 17%, 19%)`
Lab*	`21.72 -10.24 7.3`
CMYK*	`29% 0% 27% 78%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

78 %

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