King Kong
#161410
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
#161410
RGB
22, 20, 16
OKLCh
19.2% 0.009 84.6°
CIELAB (D50)
6.4, 0.3, 2.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 21% 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 105.0; 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
18.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.14:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at18.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#161410
protanopia
#141410 · ΔE00 1.4
deuteranopia
#151510 · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#151507 · ΔE00 4.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSinister at ΔE00 1.262: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- SinisterΔE00 1.262 · #12110e
- Dark VeilΔE00 1.265 · #141311
- Kokushoku BlackΔE00 1.454 · #171412
- Nuln Oil GlossΔE00 1.602 · #171310
- Glimpse Into SpaceΔE00 1.762 · #121210
- Twilight ZoneΔE00 1.914 · #191916
- Balsam of PeruΔE00 1.962 · #120d07
- Black RaspberryΔE00 1.972 · #16110d
- Smoky BlackΔE00 2.017 · #100c08
- Nuln OilΔE00 2.032 · #14100e
- Distinctive Lack of HueΔE00 2.149 · #141513
- BalsamicoΔE00 2.346 · #130d07
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.