Crow
#180614
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
#180614
RGB
24, 6, 20
OKLCh
16.1% 0.042 336.2°
CIELAB (D50)
3.4, 8.3, -4.1
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 58% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- 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.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 8.2 and 8.5 and 16.6 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
19.54:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.07:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at19.54:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#180614
protanopia
#090914 · ΔE00 8.2
deuteranopia
#0d0d14 · ΔE00 8.5
tritanopia
#111100 · ΔE00 16.6
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isGlossy Black at ΔE00 2.062: between 2 and 5 — clearly two colours when compared, easily mistaken from memory. What the numbers mean.
- Glossy BlackΔE00 2.062 · #110011
- Noir FictionΔE00 2.955 · #150811
- Shot in the DarkΔE00 3.07 · #1d0d1d
- Meški BlackΔE00 4.524 · #1f0b1e
- InsideΔE00 4.641 · #221122
- Bats CloakΔE00 4.957 · #1f1518
- KurobeniΔE00 5.13 · #23191e
- Violet VoidΔE00 5.968 · #1a161d
- Black CherryΔE00 6.189 · #2c1620
- Midnight JamΔE00 6.217 · #0b0119
- Italian RoastΔE00 6.333 · #221111
- ShikonΔE00 6.653 · #2b2028
5 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.