Information about #111111 color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #111111 reads as a muted, almost neutral deep charcoal and keeps to the darkest edge of the palette. Expect to see shades like this in dark UI themes, backgrounds and dramatic accents. In The Official Register of Color Names it is almost identical to Chinese Black (#141414). Slightly further away sit Standard-Bearer (#141216) and Fingertips (#130E0C).
Technically, #111111 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 17, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, white text works best on #111111: 18.9:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.1:1 for black. For print, note the heavy black component (K:93) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#111111 color variations
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#111111 color tints
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#111111 color shades
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#111111 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#111111 belongs to the Greyscale Color Family, and greyscale colors have no hue. Hue is an angle on the color wheel, and that angle only exists when a color leans toward one primary more than the others. Here all three channels are equal (R = G = B), so there is nothing to lean and no angle to measure.
Everything built on rotating that angle therefore has nothing to rotate. A complementary color is the hue 180° away — for a grey, that is the same grey. The same goes for analogous, triadic, tetradic and square harmonies. Rather than show seven identical swatches, the register leaves the Hues variation strip and the whole Harmonies section out.
What remains is everything that depends on lightness rather than hue. Tints, shades and tones still work, because they move the color up and down the scale instead of around the wheel. So do the nearest named colors, the conversions and the adjacent color codes.
How the register classifies colors · All greyscale colors in the register
Alternatives to #111111 color
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Nearest named colors to #111111
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#141414
#141216
#130E0C
#18130E
#0C0C0C
#1A1110
#100C08
#0B0B0B
#0B0F08
#070D0D
#0C090A
#1D1111
#111111 color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#111111
- RGB17, 17, 17
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 93
- CSSrgb(17, 17, 17)
- HSL0°, 0%, 7%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 6.667%
- HSV0°, 0%, 7%
- HSB0°, 0%, 7%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.067
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.067
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.067
- GLSLvec3(0.067, 0.067, 0.067)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.067, 0.067, 0.067, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.067, 0.067, 0.067)
- Percentage of Red in RGB6.7%
- Percentage of Green in RGB6.7%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB6.7%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Dark
- HEX ID111111
- DECIMAL ID1118481
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers96 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
