Asphalt
#130a06
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
#130a06
RGB
19, 10, 6
OKLCh
15.6% 0.019 48.0°
CIELAB (D50)
3.4, 2.7, 2.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 44% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.7; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 6.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
19.56:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.07:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.56:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#130a06
protanopia
#0b0b06 · ΔE00 4.6
deuteranopia
#0d0d06 · ΔE00 5.0
tritanopia
#0f0f00 · ΔE00 6.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBalsamico at ΔE00 1.684: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- BalsamicoΔE00 1.684 · #130d07
- BlackoutΔE00 1.71 · #0e0702
- Knight RiderΔE00 1.76 · #0f0707
- OptophobiaΔE00 1.822 · #130d0d
- Black RaspberryΔE00 1.91 · #16110d
- Balsam of PeruΔE00 2.18 · #120d07
- Nuln OilΔE00 2.182 · #14100e
- Chyornyi BlackΔE00 2.195 · #0f0809
- Smoky BlackΔE00 2.42 · #100c08
- Scandinavian LiquoriceΔE00 2.423 · #1a1110
- Nuln Oil GlossΔE00 2.44 · #171310
- StoutΔE00 2.521 · #0f0b0a
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.