Black

The color code of Black indicates, that red is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with green it forms the basic color yellow, which determines the initial color impression in the same way as red. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Black is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 4 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 2 %, Black is a quite dark color.

Hex	`#0a0500`
RGB	`rgb(10, 5, 0)`
HSL*	`hsl(30, 100%, 2%)`
Lab*	`1.56 0.61 2.35`
CMYK*	`0% 50% 100% 96%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

96 %

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