Memorial Black
#091101
A green 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
#091101
RGB
9, 17, 1
OKLCh
16.4% 0.039 128.2°
CIELAB (D50)
4.2, -4.4, 5.7
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- No other named colour in the set is within ΔE00 2 of it — it stands alone.
- It uses 91% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue — close enough to the boundary that a wider display would show it slightly more vividly.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.5; 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 12.8 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
19.23:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.09:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.23:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#091101
protanopia
#101001 · ΔE00 3.4
deuteranopia
#0f0f01 · ΔE00 3.6
tritanopia
#0d0d18 · ΔE00 12.8
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlackn’t at ΔE00 2.13: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Blackn’tΔE00 2.13 · #020f03
- Whiten’tΔE00 2.169 · #050d02
- MelanousΔE00 2.435 · #000b00
- Pinch of PepperΔE00 2.456 · #0f180a
- Cosmic Bit FlipΔE00 2.501 · #001000
- Jedi NightΔE00 2.788 · #041108
- DownwellΔE00 2.89 · #001100
- Alpine SalamanderΔE00 3.188 · #051009
- Chinese BlackΔE00 3.384 · #111100
- DarknessΔE00 4.312 · #16160e
- Oil SlickΔE00 4.681 · #031602
- UnderworldΔE00 5.679 · #1e231c
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.