Cinder
#242a2e
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
#242a2e
RGB
36, 42, 46
OKLCh
28.1% 0.011 237.0°
CIELAB (D50)
16.6, -1.9, -3.6
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 18% 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 101.3; 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 10.2 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
14.53:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.45:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.53:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#242a2e
protanopia
#29292e · ΔE00 4.0
deuteranopia
#28282e · ΔE00 4.3
tritanopia
#27273b · ΔE00 10.2
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlue Charcoal at ΔE00 0.698: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Blue CharcoalΔE00 0.698 · #262b2f
- Washed BlackΔE00 1.447 · #1f262a
- Black PearlΔE00 1.919 · #1e272c
- BunkerΔE00 1.933 · #292c2f
- Graphite BlackΔE00 2.036 · #262a2b
- Black BeautyΔE00 2.336 · #23262b
- Nightmare FuelΔE00 2.349 · #293135
- Suit BlueΔE00 2.51 · #2b3036
- Deep Space EchoΔE00 2.517 · #292e35
- Cod GreyΔE00 2.852 · #2d3032
- BlackadderΔE00 2.953 · #292c2c
- Black GreyΔE00 3.076 · #24272e
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.