Young Night
#232323
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
#232323
RGB
35, 35, 35
OKLCh
25.6% 0.000 0.0°
CIELAB (D50)
13.7, 0.0, 0.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 7 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses almost none of the chroma available here: this is a grey with a trace of hue rather than a colour.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 102.7; 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
15.72:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.34:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.72:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#232323
protanopia
#232323 · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#232323 · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#232323 · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isLead at ΔE00 0.629: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- LeadΔE00 0.629 · #212121
- NeroΔE00 0.63 · #252525
- Verified BlackΔE00 0.716 · #232324
- Eye PatchΔE00 1.534 · #232121
- Dire WolfΔE00 1.577 · #282828
- Black Chestnut OakΔE00 1.859 · #252321
- Chromaphobic BlackΔE00 1.894 · #292929
- Noble BlackΔE00 2.197 · #202124
- The EndΔE00 2.21 · #2a2a2a
- Eerie BlackΔE00 2.514 · #1b1b1b
- Shoe WaxΔE00 2.527 · #2b2b2b
- Inkwell InceptionΔE00 2.61 · #1e1e21
6 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.