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#0b1613

a deep, soft cyan · cool · closest name: Black

Token name suggestion: Ink Reef

RGB
11, 22, 19
HSL
164°, 33%, 7%
CMYK
50, 0, 14, 91
Luminance
0.0069

#0b1613 is a deep soft cyan, 164° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (18.45:1). As text it scores 18.45:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Black, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(164 33% 7%)rgb(11 22 19)Base step 950AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0b1613 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0b1613
Hue
164°
cyan
Saturation
33%
soft
Lightness
7%
deep
Brightness
9%
HSV value
Perceived
7%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0069
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
18.45:1
Closest name
Black
ΔE2000 7.1
Chroma
4.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.188
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 32.2
Web-safe
#000000
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue164° of 360°
Saturation33%
Lightness7%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0b1613.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool79% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red10%
Green83%
Blue7%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#0b1613
HEX (8-digit)#0b1613ff
RGBrgb(11, 22, 19)
RGBArgba(11, 22, 19, 1)
HSLhsl(164, 33%, 7%)
HSV / HSBhsv(164, 50%, 9%)
HWBhwb(164 4% 91%)
CMYKcmyk(50%, 0%, 14%, 91%)
LABlab(6.3 -4.7 0.5)
LCHlch(6.3 4.7 174.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.188 0.017 175.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(0.54, 0.69, 0.72)
Decimal726547
Display P3color(display-p3 0.043 0.086 0.075)
Web-safe#000000

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0b1613;
background-color: #0b1613;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0b1613;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0b1613] bg-[#0b1613]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0b1613;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.043, green: 0.086, blue: 0.075)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.043, green: 0.086, blue: 0.075, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0B1613</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0B1613)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0B1613)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(19, 22, 11)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(11, 22, 19)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(11, 22, 19)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 11, 22, 19)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0431f, 0.0863f, 0.0745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{11,22,19}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0b1613 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0b1613 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2B5549, #D6EBE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0b1613 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F5F9F8;
  --brand-100: #ECF4F2;
  --brand-200: #D4E8E2;
  --brand-300: #B4DACF;
  --brand-400: #8FC7B8;
  --brand-500: #69B4A0;
  --brand-600: #52A38D;
  --brand-700: #448875;
  --brand-800: #366D5E;
  --brand-900: #2A5046;
  --brand-950: #0b1613;
  --brand: #0b1613;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C9E4DC;
  --brand-hover: #000000;
  --brand-pressed: #000000;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D6EBE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5F9F8',
        100: '#ECF4F2',
        200: '#D4E8E2',
        300: '#B4DACF',
        400: '#8FC7B8',
        500: '#69B4A0',
        600: '#52A38D',
        700: '#448875',
        800: '#366D5E',
        900: '#2A5046',
        950: '#0b1613',
        DEFAULT: '#0b1613',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5F9F8,
  '100': #ECF4F2,
  '200': #D4E8E2,
  '300': #B4DACF,
  '400': #8FC7B8,
  '500': #69B4A0,
  '600': #52A38D,
  '700': #448875,
  '800': #366D5E,
  '900': #2A5046,
  '950': #0b1613,
);
$brand-base: #0b1613;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5F9F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECF4F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D4E8E2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B4DACF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8FC7B8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#69B4A0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#52A38D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#448875", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#366D5E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2A5046", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0b1613", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #0b1613 · 18.45:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 18.45:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.14:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #0b1613 as text scores 18.45:1 on white and 1.14:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #EEF6F4 at 16.80:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#0b1613 · 18.45:1
AA on whitealready passes
#0b1613
The quick fox
#0b1613 · 18.45:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#0b1613
The quick fox
#418371 · 4.71:1
AA on black+32% L
#418371
The quick fox
#52A58E · 7.13:1
AAA on black+42% L
#52A58E

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0B1613 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#0b1613 on white: 18.45:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0b1613 on black: 1.14:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0b1613 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0b1613.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White18.45:1AaAa
Slate 5017.63:1AaAa
Slate 10016.84:1AaAa
Slate 20014.96:1AaAa
Slate 30012.42:1AaAa
Slate 4007.19:1AaAa
Slate 5003.88:1AaAa
Slate 6002.43:1AaAa
Slate 7001.78:1AaAa
Slate 8001.26:1AaAa
Slate 9001.03:1AaAa
Black1.14:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #151513
deuteranopia · #131313
tritanopia · #081615

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #0b1613 is pinned to step 950; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5F9F8
#ECF4F2
#D4E8E2
#B4DACF
#8FC7B8
#69B4A0
#52A38D
#448875
#366D5E
#2A5046
#0b1613
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F5F9F8Darkest = 950 · #0b1613Text step on white = 800
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.004 175.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 175.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.010 175.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.013 175.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.016 175.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.017 175.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.017 175.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.016 175.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.014 175.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.012 175.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.009 175.4);
}

Colors that work with #0b1613

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F5FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#C9E4DC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4D9984
Captions on the surface
Accent#170A11
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2B5549
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF6F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#000000
One step down in lightness
Pressed#000000
Two steps down
Disabled#395950
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0F2620
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #0b1613

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Black text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight94/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#160B0E
Analogous left#0B160E
Analogous right#0B1416
Split-complement 1#160B14
Split-complement 2#160E0B
Triadic 1#130B16
Triadic 2#16130B
Tetradic#0E0B16
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°164°

#0b1613 sits at 164°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red4.3%
Green8.6%
Blue7.5%
R · 0–255
11
0x0b
G · 0–255
22
0x16
B · 0–255
19
0x13

CMYK percentages

Cyan50.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow13.6%
Key (black)91.4%

Total ink coverage is 155%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0b1613 text on a black background

contrast 1.14:1

Card sample

#0b1613 text on a white background

contrast 18.45:1

Card sample

#0b1613 on grey

16.84:1

#0b1613 on its own surface

17.50:1

#0b1613 on its dark surface

1.14:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0b1613;
Background color
Panel with #0b1613 background
background-color: #0b1613;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0b1613;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(11, 22, 19, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(11, 22, 19, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0b1613;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0b1613, #0B1216);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0b1613, #0B0F16);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0b1613;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0b1613;
caret-color: #0b1613;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0b1613;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF6F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0b1613;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0b1613 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0b1613 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(11, 22, 19, 0.5)
rgb(11 22 19 / 50%)
#0b161380
hsl(164 33% 7% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0b1613 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0b16131a#E7E8E7
20%#0b161333#CED0D0
40%#0b161366#9DA2A1
60%#0b161399#6D7371
80%#0b1613cc#3C4542

Gradients from #0b1613

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1F3F36, #0b1613 45%, #2B5549);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0b1613, #010102);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0b1613, #160B0E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #2A5348 0%, #0b1613 45%, #2B5549 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #1C3820 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #15242A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2B5549 0%, transparent 65%), #0b1613;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0b1613

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#0b1613 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.14:1 — lift it to #418371 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#0b1613, answered

What color is #0b1613?

#0b1613 is a deep soft cyan, closest to Black (ΔE2000 7.1). It sits at 164° on the hue wheel with 33% saturation and 7% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0b1613?

rgb(11, 22, 19) — 11 red, 22 green and 19 blue out of 255, or 4.3% / 8.6% / 7.5% by channel.

What is #0b1613 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(164, 33%, 7%) and hsv(164, 50%, 9%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0b1613 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0069 and perceived brightness is 7%, so white text on it reaches 18.45:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0b1613?

White. It scores 18.45:1 against #0b1613, versus 1.14:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #0b1613 accessible on a white background?

#0b1613 on white scores 18.45:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #0b1613?

#160B0E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #160B14 and #160E0B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0b1613?

For interface work: #F5FAF9 as the surface, #C9E4DC for borders, #4D9984 for secondary text, #170A11 as an accent and #2B5549 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0B160E and #0B1416 stays calm, while #160B0E is the loudest partner.

What is #0b1613 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(50%, 0%, 14%, 91%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #0b1613 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 79 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #0B160F; nudged cooler, #0B1516.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0b1613?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 32.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0b1613 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0b1613 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0b1613] or text-[#0b1613], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #0b1613 with 50% opacity?

rgba(11, 22, 19, 0.5), or #0b161380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #858B89; over black, #060B0A.

Is #0b1613 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #000000, ΔE2000 7.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0b1613 mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #0b1613?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #1F3F36, #0b1613 45%, #2B5549). For more colour, a short hue run to #010102 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0b1613 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0b1613 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.