Balsamico
#130d07
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
#130d07
RGB
19, 13, 7
OKLCh
16.5% 0.016 67.8°
CIELAB (D50)
4.0, 1.6, 3.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 45% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.6; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 5.6 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
19.30:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.09:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.30:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#130d07
protanopia
#0e0e07 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#0f0f07 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#101000 · ΔE00 5.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBalsam of Peru at ΔE00 0.584: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Balsam of PeruΔE00 0.584 · #120d07
- Black RaspberryΔE00 0.94 · #16110d
- BlackoutΔE00 1.136 · #0e0702
- Smoky BlackΔE00 1.341 · #100c08
- Nuln Oil GlossΔE00 1.53 · #171310
- Nuln OilΔE00 1.586 · #14100e
- AsphaltΔE00 1.684 · #130a06
- LiquoriceΔE00 2.086 · #0a0502
- Kokushoku BlackΔE00 2.118 · #171412
- StoutΔE00 2.233 · #0f0b0a
- King KongΔE00 2.346 · #161410
- OptophobiaΔE00 2.458 · #130d0d
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.