Black Pearl
#1e272c
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
#1e272c
RGB
30, 39, 44
OKLCh
26.6% 0.016 232.5°
CIELAB (D50)
14.9, -3.0, -4.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 2 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 102.1; 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 5.7 and 6.1 and 13.1 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.20:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.20:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1e272c
protanopia
#26262c · ΔE00 5.7
deuteranopia
#25252c · ΔE00 6.1
tritanopia
#23233d · ΔE00 13.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isWashed Black at ΔE00 1.06: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Washed BlackΔE00 1.06 · #1f262a
- CinderΔE00 1.919 · #242a2e
- Blue CharcoalΔE00 2.589 · #262b2f
- Freinacht BlackΔE00 2.795 · #232f36
- Nightmare FuelΔE00 3.293 · #293135
- Charleston GreenΔE00 3.418 · #232b2b
- Black BeautyΔE00 3.423 · #23262b
- InfinityΔE00 3.434 · #222831
- Navy BlackΔE00 3.468 · #263032
- Graphite BlackΔE00 3.497 · #262a2b
- Chimney SweepΔE00 3.722 · #272f38
- Deep Space EchoΔE00 3.779 · #292e35
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.