Color #181414

In the Register's classification, #181414 belongs to the Red Color Family, featuring Desaturated and Very Dark brightness. The mix behind it: rgb(24, 20, 20) — 9.4% red, 7.8% green, 7.8% blue; the print equivalent is CMYK 0 / 2 / 2 / 91. Curious how these numbers work? Read our RGB color codes guide.

The color #181414 reads as a quiet, subdued near-black and 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 almost identical to Chinese Black (#141414). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Standard-Bearer (#141216) and Licorice (#1A1110).

In RGB terms — rgb(24, 20, 20) — the red channel does the heavy lifting here. If you plan to put text on a #181414 background, choose white — the contrast ratio is 18.3:1 (passing WCAG AAA), while black manages only 1.1:1. For print, note the heavy black component (K:91) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. Like most of the 16.7 million digital colors, this one is still waiting for a name — naming it takes a minute.