Twilight Zone
#191916
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is dark — it carries white text and needs care with black.
Hex
#191916
RGB
25, 25, 22
OKLCh
21.2% 0.006 106.9°
CIELAB (D50)
8.7, -0.6, 2.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 13% 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 104.4; 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
17.62:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.19:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at17.62:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#191916
protanopia
#191916 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#191916 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#191916 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isCoco’s Black at ΔE00 1.187: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Coco’s BlackΔE00 1.187 · #1c1c1a
- Distinctive Lack of HueΔE00 1.622 · #141513
- Siyâh BlackΔE00 1.862 · #1c1b1a
- King KongΔE00 1.914 · #161410
- Dark VeilΔE00 2.077 · #141311
- Thamar BlackΔE00 2.161 · #181818
- Cynical BlackΔE00 2.22 · #171717
- Glimpse Into SpaceΔE00 2.221 · #121210
- Eerie BlackΔE00 2.251 · #1b1b1b
- Pot BlackΔE00 2.316 · #161616
- SinisterΔE00 2.347 · #12110e
- Matt BlackΔE00 2.44 · #151515
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.