Velvet Black
#241f20
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
#241f20
RGB
36, 31, 32
OKLCh
24.5% 0.008 4.0°
CIELAB (D50)
12.4, 2.6, 0.2
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 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 103.2; 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 13.9 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
16.26:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.29:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at16.26:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#241f20
protanopia
#202020 · ΔE00 3.6
deuteranopia
#212120 · ΔE00 3.9
tritanopia
#222209 · ΔE00 13.9
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAbaddon Black at ΔE00 0.669: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Abaddon BlackΔE00 0.669 · #231f20
- UmbraΔE00 1.415 · #211e1f
- Dynamic BlackΔE00 1.711 · #1f1c1d
- Gold BlackΔE00 1.839 · #2a2424
- Raisin BlackΔE00 1.894 · #242124
- Ink BlackΔE00 1.979 · #252024
- Eye PatchΔE00 2.272 · #232121
- Wet CharcoalΔE00 2.344 · #222023
- Kālā BlackΔE00 2.842 · #201819
- Orka BlackΔE00 2.873 · #27221f
- Night DemonsΔE00 2.88 · #201b20
- Black Chestnut OakΔE00 3.303 · #252321
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.