Obsidian Shard
#060313
A violet that is nearly neutral — the hue shows only against a true grey. It is very dark — white text sits on it comfortably, black text does not.
Hex
#060313
RGB
6, 3, 19
OKLCh
11.9% 0.040 291.2°
CIELAB (D50)
1.3, 2.7, -6.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 3 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 60% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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
20.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.03:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at20.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#060313
protanopia
#030313 · ΔE00 1.2
deuteranopia
#040413 · ΔE00 1.2
tritanopia
#04040c · ΔE00 3.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNot Tonight at ΔE00 0.486: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Not TonightΔE00 0.486 · #090615
- Benthic BlackΔE00 1.315 · #000011
- Broken TubeΔE00 1.384 · #060310
- Narwhal GreyΔE00 2.153 · #080813
- Midnight OilΔE00 3.299 · #0b0c14
- Back in BlackΔE00 3.462 · #16141c
- NyctophobiaΔE00 3.55 · #0b0f1a
- Kuroi BlackΔE00 3.965 · #14151d
- Absence of LightΔE00 3.995 · #15151c
- TristesseΔE00 4.065 · #0c0c1f
- Dark RiftΔE00 4.195 · #060b14
- EigengrauΔE00 4.212 · #16161d
7 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.