Jet Black
#353337
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
#353337
RGB
53, 51, 55
OKLCh
32.5% 0.007 308.2°
CIELAB (D50)
21.6, 1.6, -2.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 5% 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 98.4; 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 5.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
12.50:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.68:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at12.50:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#353337
protanopia
#333337 · ΔE00 1.4
deuteranopia
#343437 · ΔE00 1.4
tritanopia
#343431 · ΔE00 5.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack Tortoise at ΔE00 0.893: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Black TortoiseΔE00 0.893 · #353235
- Avocado PeelΔE00 1.292 · #39373b
- StilettoΔE00 1.602 · #323235
- Shiny RubberΔE00 1.794 · #3a363b
- Sayward PineΔE00 1.898 · #383739
- Deep Forest BrownΔE00 1.989 · #393437
- Bohemian BlackΔE00 2.008 · #3b373c
- Dark Kettle BlackΔE00 2.009 · #333438
- Moonless NightΔE00 2.104 · #3c393d
- Dark OnyxΔE00 2.207 · #2e2d30
- Smiler’s MistΔE00 2.213 · #313138
- Granite BlackΔE00 2.233 · #313238
11 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.