Information about #121212 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted deep charcoal, #121212 sits very close to black. Expect to see shades like this in night-mode interfaces and high-contrast pairings with light text. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Chinese Black (#141414). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Standard-Bearer (#141216) and Vintage Black (#18130E).
Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (18 each), placing #121212 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. If you plan to put text on a #121212 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 18.7:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 1.1:1. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:93), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#121212 color variations
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#121212 color tints
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#121212 color shades
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#121212 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#121212 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 #121212 color
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Nearest named colors to #121212
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#141414
#141216
#18130E
#130E0C
#1A1110
#181818
#0C0C0C
#1B1811
#1D1111
#181A18
#100C08
#11171D
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#121212
- RGB18, 18, 18
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 93
- CSSrgb(18, 18, 18)
- HSL0°, 0%, 7%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 7.059%
- HSV0°, 0%, 7%
- HSB0°, 0%, 7%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.071
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.071
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.071
- GLSLvec3(0.071, 0.071, 0.071)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.071, 0.071, 0.071, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.071, 0.071, 0.071)
- Percentage of Red in RGB7.1%
- Percentage of Green in RGB7.1%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB7.1%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Dark
- HEX ID121212
- DECIMAL ID1184274
- Name LengthThis color has no name
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- Counting from2025-01-01
