Blackout
#0e0702
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
#0e0702
RGB
14, 7, 2
OKLCh
13.7% 0.021 68.4°
CIELAB (D50)
2.3, 1.5, 2.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 70% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.9; 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
20.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.05:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at20.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0e0702
protanopia
#080802 · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#090902 · ΔE00 3.3
tritanopia
#0b0b00 · ΔE00 4.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBalsamico at ΔE00 1.136: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BalsamicoΔE00 1.136 · #130d07
- LiquoriceΔE00 1.148 · #0a0502
- Balsam of PeruΔE00 1.159 · #120d07
- Smoky BlackΔE00 1.201 · #100c08
- AsphaltΔE00 1.71 · #130a06
- StoutΔE00 1.798 · #0f0b0a
- Nuln OilΔE00 1.88 · #14100e
- Black RaspberryΔE00 1.887 · #16110d
- Knight RiderΔE00 2.111 · #0f0707
- PupilΔE00 2.272 · #070303
- OptophobiaΔE00 2.31 · #130d0d
- Nuln Oil GlossΔE00 2.356 · #171310
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.