Eight Ball
#03050a
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
#03050a
RGB
3, 5, 10
OKLCh
11.5% 0.015 261.3°
CIELAB (D50)
1.3, -0.0, -2.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 30% 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 106.0; 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
20.39:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.03:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at20.39:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#03050a
protanopia
#05050a · ΔE00 0.8
deuteranopia
#04040a · ΔE00 0.9
tritanopia
#04040f · ΔE00 2.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNinja at ΔE00 0.498: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- NinjaΔE00 0.498 · #020308
- Raven’s CoatΔE00 1.409 · #030205
- Black HoleΔE00 1.619 · #010203
- Black MetalΔE00 2.011 · #060606
- Armour WashΔE00 2.024 · #030303
- Reversed GreyΔE00 2.064 · #080808
- Binary BlackΔE00 2.093 · #010101
- Ruined SmoresΔE00 2.114 · #0f1012
- BlackΔE00 2.144 · #000000
- Existential AngstΔE00 2.164 · #0a0a0a
- RavenΔE00 2.232 · #0b0b0b
- Black WashΔE00 2.315 · #0c0c0c
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.