Information about #161616 color
Basic facts about this digital color
A softly muted deep charcoal, #161616 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 All Black (#181818) and Standard-Bearer (#141216).
Technically, #161616 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 22, which is what makes it a true neutral. Accessibility-wise, white text works best on #161616: 18.1:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.2:1 for black. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:91), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. This shade is reserved in the Register and is not available for naming.
#161616 color variations
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#161616 color tints
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#161616 color shades
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#161616 color tones
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Why this page shows fewer blocks
#161616 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 #161616 color
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Nearest named colors to #161616
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#141414
#181818
#141216
#181A18
#1C1816
#1B1A16
#16161D
#1B1811
#11171D
#111D17
#17111D
#171D11
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#161616
- RGB22, 22, 22
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 91
- CSSrgb(22, 22, 22)
- HSL0°, 0%, 9%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 8.627%
- HSV0°, 0%, 9%
- HSB0°, 0%, 9%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.086
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.086
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.086
- GLSLvec3(0.086, 0.086, 0.086)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.086, 0.086, 0.086, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.086, 0.086, 0.086)
- Percentage of Red in RGB8.6%
- Percentage of Green in RGB8.6%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB8.6%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Dark
- HEX ID161616
- DECIMAL ID1447446
- Name LengthThis color has no name
- Seen by search & AI crawlers18 times
- Counting from2025-01-01
