Jet #212529

About this color

#212529 is a dark close to neutral grey. In OKLCH its lightness is 26%, its chroma 0.009. It has too little chroma to lean warm or cool. It is the named color Jet. White text reads best on it, at 15.42:1.

Colors that go with Jet

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

Jet is close to neutral, so it has no hue to rotate. It pairs with almost any color; try the palettes below.

Color palettes with Jet

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

• Block Bulletin
• Harbour and Mist
• Slate Agenda
• Office and Cabinet
• Steel Deck
• Ledger Folder
• Granite Archive
• Slate Handbook

Similar named colors

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

• Dark #1B2431 ΔE 0.019
• Oxford Blue #1B263B ΔE 0.034
• Rich Black #0D1B2A ΔE 0.052
• Space Cadet #2B2D42 ΔE 0.052
• Gunmetal #293241 ΔE 0.057
• Dark Brown #341C02 ΔE 0.064
• Pakistan Green #283618 ΔE 0.076
• Chocolate Brown #411900 ΔE 0.081

More about Jet

• Shades of black
• What black means

How to make Jet

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.

• 1 part black
• 1 part gray

Recipe result: #242424, a difference of ΔE 0.009 from Jet. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make gray? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Jet 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 Jet

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

   #F5F5F6

   oklch(97% 0.001 286.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #E8EAEC

   oklch(93.6% 0.003 247.9)

3. Step 200

   200

   #D6D9DD

   oklch(88.4% 0.006 255.5)

4. Step 300

   300

   #BBC1C8

   oklch(80.8% 0.012 252.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #98A2AC

   oklch(70.7% 0.019 248.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #7F8B97

   oklch(63.1% 0.023 248.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #687582

   oklch(55.6% 0.026 248.3)

8. Step 700

   700

   #57626E

   oklch(49.1% 0.024 250.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #475059

   oklch(42.7% 0.019 248.3)

10. Step 900

    900

    #3C4249

    oklch(37.6% 0.014 252.3)

11. Step 950

    950 (this color)

    #212529

    oklch(26.2% 0.009 248.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Jet 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.