Darth Vader
#27252a
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
#27252a
RGB
39, 37, 42
OKLCh
26.9% 0.010 303.8°
CIELAB (D50)
15.1, 1.9, -3.0
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 5 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 7% 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 102.1; 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 5.1 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
15.17:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.38:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at15.17:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#27252a
protanopia
#25252a · ΔE00 1.4
deuteranopia
#26262a · ΔE00 1.5
tritanopia
#262624 · ΔE00 5.1
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isBlack Onyx at ΔE00 0.953: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Black OnyxΔE00 0.953 · #2a272c
- AnthraciteΔE00 1.593 · #28282d
- Closed ShutterΔE00 1.708 · #25252c
- JaguarΔE00 1.818 · #29292f
- Raisin BlackΔE00 1.844 · #242124
- Wet CharcoalΔE00 2.03 · #222023
- Black RussianΔE00 2.067 · #24252b
- Ink BlackΔE00 2.465 · #252024
- BastilleΔE00 2.524 · #2c2c32
- Dark GunmetalΔE00 2.827 · #222429
- Dark OnyxΔE00 2.879 · #2e2d30
- To Hell and BlackΔE00 2.981 · #25212a
9 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.