Narwhal Grey
#080813
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
#080813
RGB
8, 8, 19
OKLCh
14.1% 0.024 282.9°
CIELAB (D50)
2.4, 1.4, -5.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 29% 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 105.9; 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.
- 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
19.92:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.05:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.92:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#080813
protanopia
#080813 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#080813 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#080813 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isMidnight Oil at ΔE00 1.173: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Midnight OilΔE00 1.173 · #0b0c14
- Dark RiftΔE00 2.192 · #060b14
- NyctophobiaΔE00 2.478 · #0b0f1a
- Absence of LightΔE00 2.74 · #15151c
- Kuroi BlackΔE00 2.771 · #14151d
- Back in BlackΔE00 3.007 · #16141c
- EigengrauΔE00 3.033 · #16161d
- NinjaΔE00 3.195 · #020308
- Eight BallΔE00 3.281 · #03050a
- Midnight EditionΔE00 3.446 · #0c121b
- River StyxΔE00 3.721 · #161820
- Raven’s CoatΔE00 3.84 · #030205
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.