Black Color Codes - The Hex, RGB, HSL and CMYK Values

What colors make Black?

On this page, you will find the Black Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of Black, color palettes, and related colors.

Black color code

The Black hex code is #000000. The Black hex code can be quantified in RGB values which represent the amount of Red, Green and Blue color channels. The RGB value is an estimated amount of red, green, and blue color to create the color Black. The RGB estimate is:

• Red: #00 in Hex amounts to 0%
• Green: #00 in Hex amounts to 0%
• Blue: #00 in Hex amounts to 0%

Black in HSL

HSL is an acronym which stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. HSL was developed for television and standardized for computer displays.

Hue is the perceived color name. Saturation is the "colorfulness" relative to the color's brightness. Brightness is our human eye's quantified perception of the spectral light distribution. Lightness is the color brightness relative to a perceived similarly illuminated white.

Brightness and "colorfulness" are absolute measures, while Lightness and Saturation are relative measures.

Black is 0deg, 0%, 0% HSL.

• Hue: 0deg
• Saturation: 0%
• Light: 0%

Black color in CMYK color model

The CMYK color model is commonly used in printing. The CMYK acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. Where key is black. Since the black color is the absence of light, the CMYK is a subtractive color model.

White light minus red is cyan, minus green is magenta, minus blue is yellow.

Black is 0% 0% 0% 100% CMYK.

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Key (or Black): 100%

Different shades of Black

According to its HSL value, Black contains about 0% of brightness.

Below are all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:

Accessibility tips when using the color Black

Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using Black on text, we recommend you use white for the background.

The reason Black contrasts better with a white background is because Black has a degree of brightness of 0% which provides better contrast on a bright background.

The Black color palette hex codes.

There are a few color palettes available when working with Black, but below is our favorite:

By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from Black

Below is a series of palettes generated from the color Black:

You will find specific color values of Black on this page. For example, the Black HEX color code is #000000. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for Black are:

Rich Black (Fogra39), Black Hole color code is (1.0, 2.0, 3.0). Black Metal color code is (6.0, 6.0, 6.0). Jet Black color code is (10.0, 10.0, 10.0). Darth Vader color code is (11.0, 11.0, 11.0). Black Wash color code is (12.0, 12.0, 12.0). Liquorice color code is (10.0, 5.0, 2.0). Black Sheep color code is (15.0, 13.0, 13.0). Dreamless Sleep color code is (17.0, 17.0, 17.0). Knight Rider color code is (15.0, 7.0, 7.0). Smoky Black color code is (16.0, 12.0, 8.0).

These values can help you match the specific shade and find complementary colors. Looking for a different shade of black? Our color mixer expertly generates nine different shades and eighteen color variances.

At ourpastimes.com, we are a creative team of product designers, engineers, and data scientists who want to make the internet a better place. We have poured over color theory, the math is tougher than you think, and built a showcase for color combinations.

We started by building a great virtual color mixer. We hope everyone has seen a color wheel. Personally, I loved the color wheel in my art classroom growing up. The acrylic paints like Titanium White, Burnt sienna, Dioxazine Purple make combining colors visceral and our color mixer virtually offers that visceral feeling of color mixing paints. Use our color mixer to build your next color scheme!

The color wheel pickers showcase 12 main colors. The three primary colors are red, green, and blue. When combined together, the primary colors create pure white light. Secondary colors result from mixing two primary colors:

• Red and Green make Yellow.
• Green and Blue make Cyan.
• Blue and Red make Magenta.

Combining a secondary color and a primary color yields tertiary colors. There are six tertiary colors. The six color names are orange, chartreuse green, spring green, azure, violet and rose. Colors continue to expand, for example, halfway between blue and violet is indigo, color code #4B0082, and violet is halfway between blue and purple.

So, the color wheel includes twelve main colors: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse green, green, spring green, cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, and rose.

But how do you mix paint color? To mix acrylic paint to make gold you mix in a small quantity of brown paint (approximately one part brown to 10 parts yellow). Our color mixer is expert at mixing color by parts. Adjust the color levels with an easy toggle and we handle the math to generate the resulting hex code, RGB and HSL.

Included in our color pages are color palettes, we generate color combinations between three and six colors. We call each different color mixture "palette variances." Each color palette variance includes eighteen color mixes with HEX code displayed.

A third component we provide on this page is color shades. For example, shades of Black include Rich Black (Fogra39), Black Hole, Black Metal, Jet Black, Darth Vader, Black Wash, Liquorice, Black Sheep, Dreamless Sleep, Knight Rider, and Smoky Black. We offer nine tints and shades for each color. A color shade is found by adjusting the color saturation to find a darker hue. A color tint is a lighter color. For example, pink is a tint of red.