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Information about Vampire Black color

#080808 - Vampire Black color image

Basic facts about this digital color

#080808, known as "Vampire Black", falls into the Greyscale Color Family — Desaturated, Very Dark brightness. Its exact recipe is rgb(8, 8, 8) — 3.1% red, 3.1% green, 3.1% blue — and for print it converts to CMYK 0 / 0 / 0 / 97. New to color codes? See our guide to RGB color codes.

#080808 is a softly muted deep charcoal that sits very close to black. In practice it works well for dark UI themes, backgrounds and dramatic accents. In The Official Register of Color Names it is practically indistinguishable from Night (#0C090A). Its next-closest registered neighbors are Drawlz Brand Co. Black Noir (#0B0B0B) and Fashion Black (#060403).

Under the hood all three RGB channels are equal (8 each), placing #080808 exactly on the neutral axis of the color space. Accessibility-wise, white text works best on #080808: 20.0:1 contrast (passing WCAG AAA) versus 1.0:1 for black. On paper it relies strongly on black ink (K:97), so proof dark layouts before a large print run. This precise shade carries the officially registered name "Vampire Black" in the Register.

Vampire Black color variations

View this color variations of tints, shades, tones and hues.

Why this page shows fewer blocks

Vampire 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

Nearest named colors to Vampire Black

The closest officially registered color names in the Register, ordered by similarity.

Conversions between color systems and etc.

  • HEX#080808
  • RGB8, 8, 8
  • CMYK0, 0, 0, 97
  • CSSrgb(8, 8, 8)
  • HSL0°, 0%, 3%
  • HSL Precise0°, 0%, 3.137%
  • HSV0°, 0%, 3%
  • HSB0°, 0%, 3%
  • Normalized R (0.0–1.0)0.031
  • Normalized G (0.0–1.0)0.031
  • Normalized B (0.0–1.0)0.031
  • GLSLvec3(0.031, 0.031, 0.031)
  • GLSL with alphavec4(0.031, 0.031, 0.031, 1.000)
  • HLSL / Metalfloat3(0.031, 0.031, 0.031)
  • Percentage of Red in RGB3.1%
  • Percentage of Green in RGB3.1%
  • Percentage of Blue in RGB3.1%
  • Color FamilyGreyscale
  • Saturation FamilyDesaturated
  • Lightness FamilyVery Dark
  • HEX ID080808
  • DECIMAL ID526344
  • Name Length13
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