Information about Chinese Black color
Basic facts about this digital color
The color #141414 reads as a muted, almost neutral deep charcoal and lives deep in the shadows. Expect to see shades like this in moody backdrops, typography on light surfaces and premium packaging. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Standard-Bearer (#141216). Nearby in the Register you will also find All Black (#181818) and Vintage Black (#18130E).
Technically, #141414 is a perfectly balanced RGB mix — red, green and blue all sit at 20, which is what makes it a true neutral. On this background, white text reaches a 18.4:1 contrast ratio (passing WCAG AAA); black stays at 1.1:1. For print, note the heavy black component (K:92) — ink coverage matters with tones this deep. The name "Chinese Black" is officially recorded for this exact shade in The Official Register of Color Names.
Chinese Black color variations
View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.
Chinese Black color tints
Tints look brighter, pastel, and less intense.
Chinese Black color shades
Shades look darker, richer, and more solid.
Chinese Black color tones
Tones looks more sophisticated and complex than base colors.
Why this page shows fewer blocks
Chinese Black 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 Chinese Black color
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Nearest named colors to Chinese Black
The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.
#141216
#181818
#18130E
#1A1110
#181A18
#1B1811
#1C1816
#16161D
#1B1A16
#11171D
#111D17
#17111D
Chinese Black color backgrounds & wallpapers
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Conversions between color systems and etc.
- HEX#141414
- RGB20, 20, 20
- CMYK0, 0, 0, 92
- CSSrgb(20, 20, 20)
- HSL0°, 0%, 8%
- HSL Precise0°, 0%, 7.843%
- HSV0°, 0%, 8%
- HSB0°, 0%, 8%
- Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.078
- Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.078
- Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.078
- GLSLvec3(0.078, 0.078, 0.078)
- GLSL with alphavec4(0.078, 0.078, 0.078, 1.000)
- HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.078, 0.078, 0.078)
- Percentage of Red in RGB7.8%
- Percentage of Green in RGB7.8%
- Percentage of Blue in RGB7.8%
- Color FamilyGreyscale
- Saturation FamilyDesaturated
- Lightness FamilyVery Dark
- HEX ID141414
- DECIMAL ID1315860
- Name Length13
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- Counting from2025-01-01
