Glossy Black
#110011
A magenta 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
#110011
RGB
17, 0, 17
OKLCh
12.5% 0.057 328.4°
CIELAB (D50)
1.4, 6.9, -5.2
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 sits exactly on the sRGB boundary: at this lightness and hue the gamut has nothing left, and a wider display would show a more colourful version of it.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 105.8; 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 6.6 and 6.8 and 12.9 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
20.35:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.03:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at20.35:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#110011
protanopia
#020211 · ΔE00 6.6
deuteranopia
#050511 · ΔE00 6.8
tritanopia
#090900 · ΔE00 12.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCrow at ΔE00 2.062: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- CrowΔE00 2.062 · #180614
- Noir FictionΔE00 2.788 · #150811
- Shot in the DarkΔE00 4.125 · #1d0d1d
- Midnight JamΔE00 4.657 · #0b0119
- Obsidian ShardΔE00 5.308 · #060313
- Not TonightΔE00 5.327 · #090615
- Broken TubeΔE00 5.453 · #060310
- Violet VoidΔE00 5.505 · #1a161d
- Meški BlackΔE00 5.685 · #1f0b1e
- Bats CloakΔE00 5.847 · #1f1518
- InsideΔE00 5.885 · #221122
- Back in BlackΔE00 6.071 · #16141c
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.