Night Demons
#201b20
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
#201b20
RGB
32, 27, 32
OKLCh
23.0% 0.012 326.0°
CIELAB (D50)
10.5, 3.4, -2.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 11% 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 103.9; 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 14.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.95:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.24:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.95:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#201b20
protanopia
#1c1c20 · ΔE00 3.5
deuteranopia
#1d1d20 · ΔE00 3.7
tritanopia
#1e1e0d · ΔE00 14.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInk Black at ΔE00 1.695: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Ink BlackΔE00 1.695 · #252024
- Violet VoidΔE00 2.156 · #1a161d
- Raisin BlackΔE00 2.59 · #242124
- Wet CharcoalΔE00 2.816 · #222023
- Velvet BlackΔE00 2.88 · #241f20
- Abaddon BlackΔE00 2.976 · #231f20
- Dynamic BlackΔE00 3.034 · #1f1c1d
- To Hell and BlackΔE00 3.037 · #25212a
- KurobeniΔE00 3.08 · #23191e
- UmbraΔE00 3.129 · #211e1f
- Kālā BlackΔE00 3.302 · #201819
- Darth VaderΔE00 3.575 · #27252a
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.