Noble Black
#202124
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
#202124
RGB
32, 33, 36
OKLCh
24.8% 0.006 271.2°
CIELAB (D50)
12.7, 0.1, -2.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 103.1; 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.
- 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
16.10:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.30:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.10:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#202124
protanopia
#212124 · ΔE00 0.7
deuteranopia
#212124 · ΔE00 0.8
tritanopia
#212127 · ΔE00 2.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isInkwell Inception at ΔE00 1.135: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Inkwell InceptionΔE00 1.135 · #1e1e21
- Satin Deep BlackΔE00 1.23 · #1c1e21
- Verified BlackΔE00 1.587 · #232324
- Dark GunmetalΔE00 1.593 · #222429
- LeadΔE00 2.102 · #212121
- Wet CharcoalΔE00 2.155 · #222023
- Black BeautyΔE00 2.169 · #23262b
- Young NightΔE00 2.197 · #232323
- Black RussianΔE00 2.307 · #24252b
- Gluon GreyΔE00 2.368 · #1a1b1c
- NeroΔE00 2.455 · #252525
- AnthraciteΔE00 2.774 · #28282d
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.