Black Sheep
#0f0d0d
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
#0f0d0d
RGB
15, 13, 13
OKLCh
16.2% 0.003 17.5°
CIELAB (D50)
3.8, 0.7, 0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 24 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- 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 105.6; 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
19.38:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.08:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.38:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#0f0d0d
protanopia
#0d0d0d · ΔE00 1.0
deuteranopia
#0e0e0d · ΔE00 1.1
tritanopia
#0e0e06 · ΔE00 3.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isStout at ΔE00 0.954: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- StoutΔE00 0.954 · #0f0b0a
- Black WashΔE00 1.051 · #0c0c0c
- Chaos BlackΔE00 1.061 · #0f0f0f
- Badab Black WashΔE00 1.081 · #0a0908
- RavenΔE00 1.109 · #0b0b0b
- Sticky Black TarmacΔE00 1.124 · #131212
- Existential AngstΔE00 1.186 · #0a0a0a
- Accursed BlackΔE00 1.198 · #090807
- Dreamless SleepΔE00 1.267 · #111111
- Death MetalΔE00 1.358 · #141313
- Reversed GreyΔE00 1.38 · #080808
- Dark Tone InkΔE00 1.424 · #121212
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.