Jaguar
#29292f
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
#29292f
RGB
41, 41, 47
OKLCh
28.3% 0.011 285.7°
CIELAB (D50)
16.8, 1.1, -3.9
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 8 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 101.2; 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.
- 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
14.46:1 — passes AA
Black text
1.45:1 — fails AA
White text is the better of the two at14.46:1. That is enough for body text.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#29292f
protanopia
#29292f · ΔE00 0.0
deuteranopia
#29292f · ΔE00 0.0
tritanopia
#29292f · ΔE00 0.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isAnthracite at ΔE00 0.686: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- AnthraciteΔE00 0.686 · #28282d
- BastilleΔE00 0.952 · #2c2c32
- Closed ShutterΔE00 1.403 · #25252c
- Night SkyΔE00 1.434 · #292b31
- Black RussianΔE00 1.491 · #24252b
- CaviarΔE00 1.76 · #2b2c30
- Darth VaderΔE00 1.818 · #27252a
- Stretch LimoΔE00 1.819 · #2d2e33
- Black OnyxΔE00 2.083 · #2a272c
- Black GreyΔE00 2.103 · #24272e
- Dark OnyxΔE00 2.309 · #2e2d30
- Dark GunmetalΔE00 2.349 · #222429
8 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.