HueComb

Raven’s Coat

#030205

A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is very dark — white text sits on it comfortably, black text does not.

Hex

#030205

RGB

3, 2, 5

OKLCh

9.2% 0.014 301.9°

CIELAB (D50)

0.7, 0.6, -1.0

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 14 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses only 29% 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 106.0; 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

20.69:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.01:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at20.69:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#030205

protanopia

#020205 · ΔE00 0.4

deuteranopia

#020205 · ΔE00 0.4

tritanopia

#020202 · ΔE00 1.5

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNinja at ΔE00 1.05: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.