HueComb

Corbeau

#111122

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

#111122

RGB

17, 17, 34

OKLCh

18.7% 0.034 282.6°

CIELAB (D50)

5.6, 3.5, -11.6

What is true of this colour, and of no other

  • One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
  • It uses only 31% 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 105.2; 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

18.63:1 — passes AA

Black text

1.13:1 — fails AA

White text is the better of the two at18.63:1. That is enough for body text.

The same colour, with one cone missing

As you see it

#111122

protanopia

#111122 · ΔE00 0.0

deuteranopia

#111122 · ΔE00 0.0

tritanopia

#111122 · ΔE00 0.0

Run a whole palette through all three

The twelve nearest named colours

Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isTristesse at ΔE00 1.112: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.

9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.