HEX Color #420F07 (Black)

About #420F07

At its core, #420F07 is a very dark and vivid hue. Its closest recognized web color is Black. In the RGB color space, it consists of 66 red, 15 green, and 7 blue.

When sending designs containing this color to a printer, the CMYK values come into play. To reproduce this shade on paper, a printer utilizes 0% cyan and 77% magenta inks. Always request a physical proof before doing a large print run with this exact code.

Ensuring your text is legible against this background is a key part of web design. Mathematical luminance calculations suggest that #FFFFFF text provides the most optimal reading experience. Be sure to check our contrast matrix below to see exactly how it performs against common backgrounds.

Color Space Conversions

HEX#420F07

RGB66, 15, 7

HSL8.1°, 80.8%, 14.3%

CMYK0%, 77%, 89%, 74%

HSV8.1°, 89.4%, 25.9%

LAB12.7, 24.1, 16.7

XYZ2.5, 1.5, 0.4

Decimal4329223

Color Harmonies

Complementary

#420F07 #073942

Analogous

#42071C #422C07

Triadic

#07420F #0F0742

Tetradic

#1C4207 #073942 #2C0742

Tints, Shades & Tones

Tints (Adding White)

#420F07

#572922

#6C443E

#815F59

#967975

#AB9490

#C0AFAC

#D5C9C7

#EAE4E3

#FFFFFF

Shades (Adding Black)

#420F07

#3A0D06

#330B05

#2C0A04

#240803

#1D0603

#160502

#0E0301

#070100

#000000

WCAG Contrast Accessibility

16.12:1

Text on #FFFFFF

AAA

1.30:1

Text on #000000

FAIL

15.40:1

Text on #F8FAFC

AAA

1.11:1

Text on #0F172A

FAIL

CSS Implementation

.bg-color { background-color: #420F07; }

.text-color { color: #420F07; }

.border-color { border: 2px solid #420F07; }

Similar Colors

Black

#000000