Color #3C3939

The digital color #3C3939 is classified in the Register under the Red Color Family, with Desaturated and Dark brightness. Its exact recipe is rgb(60, 57, 57) — 23.5% red, 22.4% green, 22.4% blue — and for print it converts to CMYK 0 / 1 / 1 / 76. Curious how these numbers work? Read our RGB color codes guide.

A quiet, subdued balanced grey tone, #3C3939 leans clearly toward the dark side. Expect to see shades like this in night-mode interfaces and high-contrast pairings with light text. In The Official Register of Color Names it is a hair away from Black Sheep (#3E393A). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Smoky Charcoal (#3B3737) and Eclipse (#3F3939).

The recipe behind #3C3939 is rgb(60, 57, 57), with red as the dominant ingredient. If you plan to put text on a #3C3939 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 11.4:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 1.8:1. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:76), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. Like most of the 16.7 million digital colors, this one is still waiting for a name — naming it takes a minute.