Midnight Oil
#0b0c14
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
#0b0c14
RGB
11, 12, 20
OKLCh
15.7% 0.017 278.7°
CIELAB (D50)
3.4, 0.8, -4.3
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 105.7; 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
19.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.08:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0b0c14
protanopia
#0c0c14 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#0c0c14 · ΔE00 0.5
tritanopia
#0c0c16 · ΔE00 1.4
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNarwhal Grey at ΔE00 1.173: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Narwhal GreyΔE00 1.173 · #080813
- Dark RiftΔE00 1.582 · #060b14
- Absence of LightΔE00 2.326 · #15151c
- Kuroi BlackΔE00 2.462 · #14151d
- Eight BallΔE00 2.554 · #03050a
- NyctophobiaΔE00 2.591 · #0b0f1a
- NinjaΔE00 2.611 · #020308
- EigengrauΔE00 2.624 · #16161d
- Midnight EditionΔE00 2.981 · #0c121b
- Ruined SmoresΔE00 3.065 · #0f1012
- Back in BlackΔE00 3.081 · #16141c
- Aswad BlackΔE00 3.184 · #17181c
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.