Coco’s Black
#1c1c1a
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
#1c1c1a
RGB
28, 28, 26
OKLCh
22.6% 0.004 106.7°
CIELAB (D50)
10.2, -0.4, 1.4
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 8% 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 104.0; 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
17.07:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.23:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at17.07:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#1c1c1a
protanopia
#1c1c1a · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#1c1c1a · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#1c1c1a · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSiyâh Black at ΔE00 1.148: between 1 and 2 — a trained eye spots it when the two touch; nobody spots it across a room. What the numbers mean.
- Siyâh BlackΔE00 1.148 · #1c1b1a
- Twilight ZoneΔE00 1.187 · #191916
- Eerie BlackΔE00 1.474 · #1b1b1b
- Thamar BlackΔE00 1.893 · #181818
- PetroleumΔE00 2.009 · #21211d
- Cynical BlackΔE00 2.108 · #171717
- LeadΔE00 2.163 · #212121
- Gluon GreyΔE00 2.243 · #1a1b1c
- Distinctive Lack of HueΔE00 2.319 · #141513
- Pot BlackΔE00 2.336 · #161616
- Matt BlackΔE00 2.569 · #151515
- Young NightΔE00 2.664 · #232323
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.