Dark #1B2431

About this color

#1B2431 is a dark close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 26%, its chroma 0.028. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Dark. White text reads best on it, at 15.63:1.

Colors that go with Dark

Matches found by rotating Dark around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Dark

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Dark, closest first.

• Abyss and Lunar
• Harbour and Mist
• Bubble Mobile
• Zenith Afternoon
• Shell Breeze
• Slate Agenda
• Office and Cabinet
• Steel Deck

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Dark, with their ΔE distance.

• Oxford Blue #1B263B ΔE 0.019
• Jet #212529 ΔE 0.019
• Rich Black #0D1B2A ΔE 0.041
• Space Cadet #2B2D42 ΔE 0.050
• Gunmetal #293241 ΔE 0.058
• Prussian Blue #1D3557 ΔE 0.080
• Midnight Green #073B4C ΔE 0.081
• Dark Brown #341C02 ΔE 0.082

More about Dark

• Shades of black
• What black means

How to make Dark

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 3 parts blue
• 2 parts black
• 1 part purple

Recipe result: #20272B, a difference of ΔE 0.020 from Dark. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Dark in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Dark

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 950.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F4F6F8

   oklch(97.2% 0.003 247.9)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E6EAF0

   oklch(93.6% 0.009 258.3)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D2DAE5

   oklch(88.6% 0.017 256.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #B4C2D6

   oklch(81% 0.032 257.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #8CA2C2

   oklch(70.7% 0.053 257.7)

6. Step 500

   500

   #708BB2

   oklch(63.1% 0.067 257.5)

7. Step 600

   600

   #58759E

   oklch(55.7% 0.073 257.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #486287

   oklch(49.1% 0.067 257.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #3B506E

   oklch(42.7% 0.057 257.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #334259

    oklch(37.6% 0.044 258.8)

11. Step 950

    950 (this color)

    #1B2431

    oklch(25.8% 0.028 257.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Dark with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.