Black Stallion
#0e191c
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#0e191c
RGB
14, 25, 28
OKLCh
20.4% 0.017 216.6°
CIELAB (D50)
7.8, -4.1, -3.8
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 46% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 104.6; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.6 and 7.1 and 15.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
17.88:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.17:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at17.88:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0e191c
protanopia
#18181c · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#16161c · ΔE00 7.1
tritanopia
#14142e · ΔE00 15.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNeverything at ΔE00 3.019: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- NeverythingΔE00 3.019 · #13181b
- Black GlazeΔE00 3.158 · #001111
- Black Is BackΔE00 3.178 · #0f1519
- Crow FeatherΔE00 4.245 · #102329
- Black KnightΔE00 4.57 · #010b13
- Black FeatherΔE00 4.633 · #112222
- Washed BlackΔE00 4.804 · #1f262a
- Black PearlΔE00 4.807 · #1e272c
- Dark Side of the MoonΔE00 4.841 · #070d0d
- Sunken ShipΔE00 5.049 · #10252a
- Shadow WarriorΔE00 5.306 · #1a2421
- Satin Deep BlackΔE00 5.327 · #1c1e21
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.