Trapped Darkness
#0e1d32
A blue that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#0e1d32
RGB
14, 29, 50
OKLCh
22.9% 0.046 257.0°
CIELAB (D50)
10.3, -0.3, -16.1
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 56% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.8; 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 7.1 and 7.4 and 8.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.93:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.24:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.93:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0e1d32
protanopia
#1c1c32 · ΔE00 7.1
deuteranopia
#191932 · ΔE00 7.4
tritanopia
#171743 · ΔE00 8.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isHēi Sè Black at ΔE00 2.536: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Hēi Sè BlackΔE00 2.536 · #142030
- KonΔE00 2.694 · #192236
- Sombre NightΔE00 3.083 · #161e34
- The Count’s BlackΔE00 3.199 · #102030
- Naval NightΔE00 3.22 · #011c39
- Fog of WarΔE00 3.226 · #112233
- Cool Balaclavas Are ForeverΔE00 3.529 · #18233d
- Eternal DarknessΔE00 4.079 · #1c2841
- Midnight MirageΔE00 4.104 · #001f3f
- Kuretake Black MangaΔE00 4.116 · #001122
- Maastricht BlueΔE00 4.182 · #001c3d
- Moonless MysteryΔE00 4.405 · #1e2433
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.