Scandinavian Liquorice
#1a1110
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
#1a1110
RGB
26, 17, 16
OKLCh
18.9% 0.015 25.9°
CIELAB (D50)
6.0, 4.1, 2.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses only 20% 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 105.1; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.0 and 6.6 and 11.7 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
18.56:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.13:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at18.56:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1a1110
protanopia
#121210 · ΔE00 6.0
deuteranopia
#141410 · ΔE00 6.6
tritanopia
#161600 · ΔE00 11.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isKālā Black at ΔE00 2.29: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Kālā BlackΔE00 2.29 · #201819
- AsphaltΔE00 2.423 · #130a06
- OptophobiaΔE00 2.737 · #130d0d
- Bats CloakΔE00 2.982 · #1f1518
- Black UmberΔE00 3.086 · #1f1916
- Knight RiderΔE00 3.123 · #0f0707
- Black RaspberryΔE00 3.304 · #16110d
- Chyornyi BlackΔE00 3.353 · #0f0809
- Dark OrchestraΔE00 3.364 · #251b19
- Nuln Oil GlossΔE00 3.509 · #171310
- Nuln OilΔE00 3.529 · #14100e
- Bighorn SheepΔE00 3.648 · #20120e
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.