HueComb

Ruined Smores

#0f1012

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

#0f1012

RGB

15, 16, 18

OKLCh

17.3% 0.004 264.5°

CIELAB (D50)

4.6, -0.1, -1.2

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 17 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
  • It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
  • As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.5; 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

19.04:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.10:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at19.04:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#0f1012

protanopia

#101012 · ΔE00 0.6

deuteranopia

#101012 · ΔE00 0.6

tritanopia

#101015 · ΔE00 1.9

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isChaos Black at ΔE00 1.204: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.