Violet Void
#1a161d
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
#1a161d
RGB
26, 22, 29
OKLCh
20.8% 0.015 310.7°
CIELAB (D50)
7.9, 3.4, -4.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- One other named colour sits within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 14% 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 104.6; 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.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 10.7 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
17.85:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.18:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at17.85:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1a161d
protanopia
#16161d · ΔE00 2.8
deuteranopia
#17171d · ΔE00 3.0
tritanopia
#181810 · ΔE00 10.7
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBack in Black at ΔE00 1.75: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Back in BlackΔE00 1.75 · #16141c
- Night DemonsΔE00 2.156 · #201b20
- EigengrauΔE00 2.816 · #16161d
- Absence of LightΔE00 2.92 · #15151c
- Kuroi BlackΔE00 3.565 · #14151d
- To Hell and BlackΔE00 3.621 · #25212a
- Ink BlackΔE00 3.77 · #252024
- Piano BlackΔE00 4.018 · #17171a
- KurobeniΔE00 4.102 · #23191e
- River StyxΔE00 4.118 · #161820
- Noir FictionΔE00 4.16 · #150811
- Aswad BlackΔE00 4.252 · #17181c
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.