Light Black

The color code of Light Black indicates, that blue is the main light source among the primary colors red, green and blue. Together with green it forms the basic color cyan, which determines the initial color impression along with the remains of blue. Learn more …

But due to the large amount of achromatic basic colors like black and white the colorfulness of Light Black is strongly limited: The mixture ratio between chromatic and achromatic basic colors results in 6 % saturation. Since the inherent brightness of its contained basic colors sums up to a perceived brightness of 19 %, Light Black is a quite dark color.

Hex	`#283238`
RGB	`rgb(40, 50, 56)`
HSL*	`hsl(203, 17%, 19%)`
Lab*	`20.12 -2.55 -5.2`
CMYK*	`29% 11% 0% 78%`

* approximated values

Basic colors

78 %

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