Illicit Darkness
#00022e
A blue that is muted. It is very dark — white text sits on it comfortably, black text does not.
Hex
#00022e
RGB
0, 2, 46
OKLCh
14.3% 0.090 264.2°
CIELAB (D50)
1.9, 8.6, -26.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.5; 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.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
20.04:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.05:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at20.04:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#00022e
protanopia
#02022e · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#01012e · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#010130 · ΔE00 0.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight at ΔE00 1.006: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- MidnightΔE00 1.006 · #03012d
- Mighty MidnightΔE00 1.431 · #000133
- Abyssopelagic WaterΔE00 1.57 · #000033
- OblivionΔE00 1.625 · #000435
- Erebus BlueΔE00 1.913 · #060030
- InsomniaΔE00 1.915 · #06012c
- Midnight BlueΔE00 2.121 · #020035
- Cosmic VoidΔE00 2.175 · #090533
- Infinite NightΔE00 2.368 · #071037
- Mysterious DepthsΔE00 3.016 · #060929
- Grim ReaperΔE00 3.462 · #0f1039
- Deep CoveΔE00 3.524 · #051040
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.