HueComb

Sinister

#12110e

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

#12110e

RGB

18, 17, 14

OKLCh

17.8% 0.006 91.7°

CIELAB (D50)

5.1, -0.0, 1.7

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • 18 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 only 17% 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 105.4; 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

18.88:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.11:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at18.88:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#12110e

protanopia

#11110e · ΔE00 0.6

deuteranopia

#11110e · ΔE00 0.7

tritanopia

#11110a · ΔE00 2.1

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isDark Veil at ΔE00 0.651: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. 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.