Eigengrau
#16161d
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#16161d
RGB
22, 22, 29
OKLCh
20.3% 0.014 285.1°
CIELAB (D50)
7.5, 1.5, -4.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 12% 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 104.7; 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.
- 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
18.00:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.17:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at18.00:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#16161d
protanopia
#16161d · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#16161d · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#16161d · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbsence of Light at ΔE00 0.303: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Absence of LightΔE00 0.303 · #15151c
- Kuroi BlackΔE00 0.896 · #14151d
- River StyxΔE00 1.42 · #161820
- Back in BlackΔE00 1.477 · #16141c
- Aswad BlackΔE00 2.27 · #17181c
- Midnight OilΔE00 2.624 · #0b0c14
- Piano BlackΔE00 2.642 · #17171a
- Violet VoidΔE00 2.816 · #1a161d
- Coarse WoolΔE00 2.975 · #181b26
- Narwhal GreyΔE00 3.033 · #080813
- NyctophobiaΔE00 3.054 · #0b0f1a
- Midnight EditionΔE00 3.445 · #0c121b
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.