Liquorice
#0a0502
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
#0a0502
RGB
10, 5, 2
OKLCh
12.2% 0.016 63.8°
CIELAB (D50)
1.6, 1.0, 1.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 59% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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
20.28:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.04:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at20.28:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0a0502
protanopia
#060602 · ΔE00 2.1
deuteranopia
#060602 · ΔE00 2.2
tritanopia
#070700 · ΔE00 2.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlackout at ΔE00 1.148: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BlackoutΔE00 1.148 · #0e0702
- Smoky BlackΔE00 1.213 · #100c08
- PupilΔE00 1.238 · #070303
- StoutΔE00 1.246 · #0f0b0a
- Accursed BlackΔE00 1.686 · #090807
- Badab Black WashΔE00 1.727 · #0a0908
- Balsam of PeruΔE00 1.866 · #120d07
- Black SheepΔE00 1.9 · #0f0d0d
- Nuln OilΔE00 2.037 · #14100e
- Knight RiderΔE00 2.045 · #0f0707
- BalsamicoΔE00 2.086 · #130d07
- Chyornyi BlackΔE00 2.121 · #0f0809
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.